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Scherpf, Erik |
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The Path to SNAP: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Dynamics Among Young Adults Presented: Washington DC, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association AAEA & CAES Joint Annual Meeting, August 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Parenthood; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study investigates young adults’ first experience with the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), examining the determinants of first program entry and exit. It makes use of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort (NLSY97), which follows respondents from adolescence into adulthood. This study estimates discrete-time hazard models of program entry and exit with and without unobserved heterogeneity. Unobserved heterogeneity is modeled using both a parametric approach, in which a gamma distribution is assumed, and a non-parametric approach with two mass points. The results are broadly consistent across models, indicating that, for the cohort in this study, accounting for unobserved heterogeneity does not substantially alter the results from a basic discrete-time hazard model. The results show that expanded categorical eligibility increased the hazard of SNAP entry in the six years following high school, while the absence of vehicle exclusions decreased the entry hazard. For program exit, however, state SNAP policies had no statistically significant effect. The recent birth of a child, prior participation in WIC and low educational attainment were each strongly associated with an increased “risk” of SNAP entry, and decreased “risk” of exit. Somewhat, surprisingly, higher unemployment rates in the local labor market were not significantly associated with higher entry risk, but were strongly associated with a lower exit risk. |
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Scherpf, Erik. "The Path to SNAP: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Dynamics Among Young Adults." Presented: Washington DC, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association AAEA & CAES Joint Annual Meeting, August 2013. |
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Schmeiser, Maximilian D. |
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Child Obesity: Revisiting the NLSY79 Presented: Milwaukee, WI, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association's AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting, July 2009. Also: http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/49280/2/The%20Supplemental%20Nutrition%20Assistance%20Program%20and%20Child%20Obesity%20AAEA.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Family Income; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Modeling, Fixed Effects; Obesity; State-Level Data/Policy; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Over the past three decades the prevalence of obesity among children in the United States has more than tripled. A clear income gradient exists in the prevalence of obesity, with low-income children significantly more likely to be obese. One suggested cause of the higher prevalence of obesity among children in low-income families is participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as the obesity prevalence among SNAP participants is consistently higher than that of eligible non-participants. This paper examines the effect of long-term SNAP participation on the obesity status of children ages 3 to 11 using data from the Children and Young Adults of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and an instrumental variables identification strategy. Doing so, I find that there is no effect of the SNAP on obesity status for either boys or girls. |
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Schmeiser, Maximilian D. "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Child Obesity: Revisiting the NLSY79." Presented: Milwaukee, WI, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association's AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting, July 2009. |