| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23112 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23112 |
| How Are SNAP Benefits Spent? Evidence from a Retail Panel | |
| Justine S. Hastings; Jesse M. Shapiro | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-01-30 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We use a novel retail panel with detailed transaction records to study the effect of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on household spending. We use administrative data to motivate three approaches to causal inference. The marginal propensity to consume SNAP-eligible food (MPCF) out of SNAP benefits is 0.5 to 0.6. The MPCF out of cash is much smaller. These patterns obtain even for households for whom SNAP benefits are economically equivalent to cash because their benefits are below their food spending. Using a semiparametric framework, we reject the hypothesis that households respect the fungibility of money. A model with mental accounting can match the facts. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23112 |
| 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/580786 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Justine S. Hastings,Jesse M. Shapiro. How Are SNAP Benefits Spent? Evidence from a Retail Panel. 2017. |
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| w23112.pdf（367KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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