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SNAP EXPANSIONS AND PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT SAFETY NET PROGRAMS
Author(s) -
Han Jeehoon
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/ecin.12909
Subject(s) - liberian dollar , medicaid , supplemental nutrition assistance program , safety net , snap , government (linguistics) , economics , state (computer science) , subsidy , demographic economics , business , finance , political science , economic growth , mathematics , computer science , health care , food insecurity , law , geography , market economy , computer graphics (images) , algorithm , food security , agriculture , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy
This paper investigates the interactions between health and nutritional assistance programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, and school lunch programs. Exploiting variation in SNAP eligibility across states and over time, I find strong evidence of program interactions: when a state moves from the federal rule to the most extensive SNAP eligibility rule, enrollment in free school lunch and WIC increases by 4.1 and 7.9 percentage points, respectively. I estimate that the federal government spends an additional 74 cents on the school lunch program and WIC for each dollar spent on SNAP due to the expansion. ( JEL H53, I38, J22)