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Source: Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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1. Schmeiser, Maximilian D.
The Impact of Long Term Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity
Working Paper, Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2010.
Also: https://www.appam.org/conferences/fall/boston2010/sessions/downloads/1097.1.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Family Income; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Geocoded Data; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Obesity; State-Level Data/Policy; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps); Weight

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See also: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1645525 for a working paper published earlier in 2010.

Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) reached an all-time high of 40.2 million persons in March 2010, which means the program affects a substantial fraction of Americans. A significant body of research has emerged suggesting that participation in SNAP increases the probability of being obese for adult women and has little effect on the probability for adult men. However, studies addressing the effects of participation on children have produced mixed results. This paper examines the effect of long-term SNAP participation on the Body Mass Index (BMI) percentile and probability of being overweight or obese for children ages 5 through 18 using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children and Young Adults data set. An instrumental variables identification strategy that exploits exogenous variation in state-level program parameters, as well as state and federal expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), is used to address the endogeneity between SNAP participation and obesity. SNAP participation is found to significantly reduce BMI percentile and the probability of being overweight or obese for boys and girls ages 5 through 11 and boys ages 12 through 18. For girls ages 12 through 18, SNAP participation appears to have no significant effect on these outcomes.

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Schmeiser, Maximilian D. "The Impact of Long Term Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Child Obesity." Working Paper, Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2010.