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Title: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Child Obesity: Revisiting the NLSY79
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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. |