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Distributional impacts of food assistance: How SNAP payments to the rural poor affect incomes in the urban core
Author(s) -
Lewin Paul A.,
Weber Bruce A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12524
Subject(s) - supplemental nutrition assistance program , snap , spillover effect , metropolitan area , economics , payment , counterfactual thinking , food stamps , low income , affect (linguistics) , demographic economics , food insecurity , geography , agriculture , food security , welfare , finance , macroeconomics , market economy , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , linguistics , computer graphics (images) , archaeology
Abstract This paper examines how benefits of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to low‐income households spillover between Portland, Oregon‐metropolitan core and its periphery trade area. The paper studies the impact of the SNAP program on four income classes by comparing the income increases generated by SNAP in 2006 in each income class in each region with a counterfactual scenario in which the taxes that would be needed from taxpayers in the region to support SNAP are treated as income and spent. The analysis shows that overall, SNAP payments net of taxes stimulate the regional economy and are significantly redistributive.