Expenditure response to increases in in-kind transfers: Evidence from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
| dc.creator | Beatty, Timothy K.M. | |
| dc.creator | Tuttle, Charlotte | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T18:44:14Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T06:01:52Z | |
| dc.description | Recent studies on food stamp participant households' marginal propensity to spend out of food stamps versus income have had contradictory results: experimental studies have found household behavior aligns with standard economic theory where households' marginal propensity to spend on food out of food stamps is equivalent to cash income; observational studies found that households have a larger marginal propensity to spend out of food stamps than cash income. In this study, we re-examine this question by estimating how an unprecedentedly large increase in food stamp benefits due to the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act affects food-at-home expenditure. We find that the policy change caused households to increase food-at-home expenditure as well as increase households' share of total expenditure allocated toward food-at-home expenditure. We compare these results to a time period without a meaningful food stamp policy change and find our results are unique to the ARRA implementation time period. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.122873 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/122873/files/Beatty_Tuttle_AAEA.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/122873 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/571488 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/122873 | |
| dc.title | Expenditure response to increases in in-kind transfers: Evidence from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program | |
| dc.type | Text |