The Success of SNAP (Food Stamps) and the Desirability of Taxing Food

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Sheffrin ◽  
Anna Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Food Stamps

Participatory Research in Action: Improving Access to Food Stamps

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Oswald ◽  
Maria Aceves ◽  
Hilda Chan ◽  
Marisela Espitia ◽  
Sandra Galindo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Food Stamps ◽  
Access To Food

Editorial: Migration costs

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha W. Rees
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Food Stamps ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Unemployment Compensation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexican Immigrant Men ◽  
Migration Costs ◽  
Immigrant Men

Much has been written about the costs—and benefits--of migration--in terms of the costs to the US (or receiving regions) and of the benefits to migrants. Massey (2005) concludes that because (Mexican) immigrants pay taxes, they are not a drain on public services. In fact, migrants are less likely to use public services, and pay taxes for services they don’t use. Almost two-thirds have Social Security taxes withheld, only 10% have sent a child to public schools, and under 5% or have used food stamps, welfare, or unemployment compensation. They also pay sales taxes. In terms of criminality, Rumbaut and Ewing (2007) refute the myth that migrants bring crime. They find that Mexican immigrant men have a lower rate of incarceration (0.7%) than US born Latinos (5.9%) or for US born males (3.5%).

Child Money and Food Stamps: A comparative analysis of Mongolian welfare programmes in the Ger Districts of Ulaanbaatar

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-524
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fox
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Food Stamps ◽  
Means Testing ◽  
Economic Cycles ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Welfare Model ◽  
Level Analysis

Abstract Until recently, the Mongolian welfare system was entirely category based. However, a new food stamps programme funded by loans from the Asian Development Bank, which targets aid according to proxy means testing, has been introduced as part of the bank’s aim to push Mongolia towards a fiscally sustainable welfare model. The food stamps programme is presented as efficient and responsible in contrast to Mongolia’s universal child money programme. Based on long-term participant observation research in the ger districts of Ulaanbaatar, areas inhabited by many rural-urban migrants living in poverty, this paper compares the two programmes, interweaving street-level accounts of the experiences of residents and bureaucrats alike with the respective histories and funding sources of the two programmes. Doing so provides a multi-level analysis of the emergent welfare state in Mongolia, unpicking the ‘system’ that ger district residents encounter, linking the relative influence of international financial institutions to democratic and economic cycles, and offering a critique of the supposed efficiency of targeted welfare programmes.

A Case for In-Kind Transfers

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Kelman
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Food Stamps ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Do So ◽  
Common Policy

One of the most common policy-related messages that economists present to non-economists is the superiority of cash over in-kind transfers as a policy tool. A good deal of government policy on behalf of the poor consists, of course, of various forms of in-kind assistance, such as medical care or food stamps. However, if we wish to help the poor, the argument goes, in-kind transfers are an inferior way to do so.

scholarly journals Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary W Hoynes ◽  
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Food Stamps ◽  
Cash Income ◽  
Food Stamp Program ◽  
Difference In Difference ◽  
Food Expenditures ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Difference Methods ◽  
The Impact

Economists have strong theoretical predictions about how in-kind transfers, such as providing vouchers for food, impact consumption. Despite the prominence of the theory, there is little empirical work on responses to in-kind transfers, and most existing work fails to support the canonical theoretical model. We employ difference-in-difference methods to estimate the impact of program introduction on food spending. Consistent with predictions, we find that food stamps reduce out-of-pocket food spending and increase overall food expenditures. We also find that households are inframarginal and respond similarly to one dollar in cash income and one dollar in food stamps. (JEL D12, H23, I38)

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