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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w23633
来源ID	Working Paper 23633
	It's a Cruel Summer: Household Responses to Reductions in Government Nutrition Assistance
	Lorenzo Almada; Ian McCarthy
发表日期	2017-07-31
出版年	2017
语种	英语
摘要	The appropriate size and scope of government nutrition assistance programs is a regular source of debate among policy-makers, and with calls to reduce government benefits, a clear understanding of household responses to any proposed benefit reduction is critical. Exploiting the design of U.S. nutrition assistance programs, we examine how low-income households reallocate their budgets following an exogenous reduction in nutrition assistance benefits. The magnitude of our results suggests that the budget for an average low-income household with children is severely inflexible and likely unable to absorb more than a $2 to $3 reduction in nutrition benefits per child per week.
主题	Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w23633
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/581307
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lorenzo Almada,Ian McCarthy. It's a Cruel Summer: Household Responses to Reductions in Government Nutrition Assistance. 2017.