全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Effect of Safety Net Programs on Food Insecurity

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19558
来源ID	Working Paper 19558
	The Effect of Safety Net Programs on Food Insecurity
	Lucie Schmidt; Lara Shore-Sheppard; Tara Watson
发表日期	2013-10-17
出版年	2013
语种	英语
摘要	Does the safety net reduce food insecurity in families? In this paper we investigate how the structure of benefits for five major safety net programs - TANF, SSI, EITC, food assistance, and Medicaid - affects low food security in families. We build a calculator for the years 2001-2009 to impute eligibility and benefits for these programs in each state, taking into account cross-program eligibility rules. To identify a causal effect of the safety net, we use simulated eligibility and benefits for a nationally representative sample as instruments for imputed eligibility and potential benefits. We also perform a two-sample instrumental variables estimation in which we use simulated benefits as instruments for actual reported benefits. Focusing on non-immigrant, single-parent families with incomes below 300 percent of the poverty line, the results suggest that each $1000 in cash or food benefits actually received reduces the incidence of low food security by 4 percentage points. These estimates imply that moving from the policies of the 10th percentile state of Kentucky to the 90th percentile state of Vermont would reduce low food security by 1.7 percentage points on a base incidence of 33 percent. We are unable to reject equivalent impacts of cash and food assistance. The results also highlight the importance of jointly considering a full range of safety net programs.
主题	Public Economics ; Taxation ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19558
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/577233
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lucie Schmidt,Lara Shore-Sheppard,Tara Watson. The Effect of Safety Net Programs on Food Insecurity. 2013.