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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w25635 |
来源ID | Working Paper 25635 |
SNAP and Paycheck Cycles | |
Timothy K.M. Beatty; Marianne P. Bitler; Xinzhe Huang Cheng; Cynthia van der Werf | |
发表日期 | 2019-03-18 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | It is well documented that individuals do not spend SNAP benefits smoothly over the month after receipt. Rather, recipients spend a disproportionate share of benefits at the beginning of the benefit month. This has costs for recipients and stores. There is also evidence that other income streams, such as Social Security and paychecks, are not spent smoothly. The presence of these other income streams may bias estimates of the effects of this SNAP cycle on consumption for working SNAP beneficiaries and those who receive other government benefits. We use data from USDA’s National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey to explore how the SNAP cycle is affected by accounting for these other income streams. We find suggestive evidence that the cycle is more pronounced for workers who are paid on a weekly or monthly basis, but little evidence that cycles in other income streams mitigate or exacerbate the SNAP cycle. |
主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25635 |
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/583320 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Timothy K.M. Beatty,Marianne P. Bitler,Xinzhe Huang Cheng,et al. SNAP and Paycheck Cycles. 2019. |
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