The Impact of Long Term Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian D. Schmeiser
Keyword(s):  
Child Obesity ◽  
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ◽  
Supplemental Nutrition ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Nutrition Assistance ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals How Does the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Affect the U.S. Economy?

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Reimer ◽  
Senal Weerasooriya ◽  
Tyler T. West
Keyword(s):  
General Equilibrium ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ◽  
Disposable Income ◽  
Supplemental Nutrition ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Nutrition Assistance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

The impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on the national economy is examined using a general equilibrium model and comparing measures of the economy from 2010 to a simulation of that economy without SNAP. Without the SNAP program, the overall size of the economy hardly differs—demand for labor increases slightly. However, households that would be eligible for SNAP experience a net loss. They have 5.5 percent less disposable income while ineligible households have approximately 1 percent more income without SNAP, and output of products eligible for purchase with SNAP funds declines approximately one billion dollars.

Evaluating the Impact of Six Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education Interventions on Children’s At-Home Diets

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela A. Williams ◽  
Sheryl C. Cates ◽  
Jonathan L. Blitstein ◽  
James C. Hersey ◽  
Katherine M. Kosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ◽  
Supplemental Nutrition ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Education Interventions ◽  
Nutrition Assistance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals The potential impact of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) restrictions on expenditures: a systematic review

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (17) ◽  
pp. 3216-3231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Cuffey ◽  
Timothy KM Beatty ◽  
Lisa Harnack
Keyword(s):  
Study Design ◽  
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ◽  
Supplemental Nutrition ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Sweetened Beverages ◽  
Food Expenditures ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Nutrition Assistance ◽  
The Impact

AbstractObjectiveTo systematically review the potential impact of reducing the set of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-eligible foods (e.g. not allowing purchase of sugar-sweetened beverages with SNAP benefits) on expenditures for restricted foods.DesignThe impact on food expenditures of a $US 1 reduction in available SNAP benefits can be used to estimate the impact of restrictions on SNAP-eligible foods. An electronic search of EconPapers, AgEcon Search, EconLit, WorldCat, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, PubMed and NALDC, and a snowball search were conducted to obtain a sample of studies up to March 2015 that estimate the impacts of SNAP and other income on household food expenditures. The studies were classified according to study population, study design and whether they attempted to correct for major study design biases.SettingEstimates were extracted from fifty-nine published and unpublished studies.SubjectsUS households.ResultsFifty-nine studies were found, yielding 123 estimates of the impact of SNAP benefits on food expenditures and 117 estimates of the difference in impacts between SNAP benefits and other income. Studies correcting for or mitigating study design biases had less estimate variation. Estimates indicate that expenditures on the restricted item would decrease by $US 1·6 to $US 4·8 if $US 10 of SNAP benefits would have otherwise been spent, with a median overall impact of $US 3.ConclusionsThe present literature suggests that restrictions on SNAP-eligible items may result in a small but potentially meaningful decrease in SNAP expenditures for restricted items. Further research is needed to evaluate whether this would translate into improvements in diet quality.

scholarly journals Does Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Reduce Food Insecurity among Households with Children? Evidence from the Current Population Survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3178
Author(s):  
Jun Zhang ◽  
Yanghao Wang ◽  
Steven T. Yen
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Current Population Survey ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ◽  
Supplemental Nutrition ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Current Population ◽  
Households With Children ◽  
Nutrition Assistance

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is designed to improve household diet and food security—a pressing problem confronting low-income families in the United States. Previous studies on the issue often ignored the methodological issue of endogenous program participation. We revisit this important issue by estimating a simultaneous equation system with ordinal household food insecurity. Data are drawn from the 2009–2011 Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS), restricted to SNAP-eligible households with children. Our results add to the stocks of empirical findings that SNAP participation ameliorates food insecurity among adults only, but increases the probabilities of low and very low food security among children. These contradictory results indicate that our selection approach with a single cross section is only partially successful, and that additional efforts are needed in further analyses of this complicated issue, perhaps with longitudinal data. Socio-demographic variables are found to affect food-secure households and food-insecure households differently, but affect SNAP nonparticipants and participants in the same direction. The state policy tools, such as broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE) and simplified reporting, can encourage SNAP participation and thus ameliorate food insecurity. Our findings can inform policy deliberations.

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