| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19363 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19363 |
| The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes | |
| Peter Ganong; Jeffrey B. Liebman | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-08-22 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Approximately 1-in-7 people and 1-in-4 children received benefits from the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in July 2011, both all-time highs. We analyze changes in SNAP take-up over the past two decades. From 1994 to 2001, coincident with welfare reform, take-up fell from 75% to 54% of eligible people. The take-up rate then rebounded, and, following several policy changes to improve program access, stabilized at 69% in 2007. Finally, take-up and enrollment rose dramatically in the Great Recession, with take-up reaching 87% in 2011. We find that changes in local unemployment can explain at least two-thirds of the increase in enrollment from 2007 to 2011. Increased state adoption of relaxed income and asset thresholds and temporary changes in program rules for childless adults explain 18% of the increase. Total SNAP spending today is 6% higher than it would be without these increases in eligibility. The recession-era increase in benefit levels is also likely to have increased enrollment. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Fiscal Policy ; Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19363 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577037 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Peter Ganong,Jeffrey B. Liebman. The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes. 2013. |
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