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Gundersen, Craig; Kuhn, Betsey A.; Offutt, Susan E.; Morehart, Mitchell J.. |
Diverse needs and preferences across the United States provide justification for the devolution, or decentralization, of many Federal Government programs to the State or local level. The move toward devolution, however, has not been evidenced in U.S. agricultural policy, despite significant differences across States in such areas as commodity production, production costs, income distribution, and opportunities for off-farm work. The existing structure of USDA funding and program delivery already reflects an appreciation of the gains from devolution, with some programs accommodating differences in State and regional preferences. This report considers the implications of devolving $22 billion in 2003 budget outlays, mostly for domestic commodity and natural... |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Public policy; Devolution; Agricultural policy; Program delivery; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33923 |
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Gundersen, Craig. |
The macroeconomy and social policies can have substantial influences on poverty in the United States. In this paper, I investigate whether these influences differ across metro and nonmetro areas. To do so, using a 16-year panel of state-level data, I estimate state and year fixed effects models separately for metro and nonmetro areas to see if the effects of the macroeconomy and social policies differ between these two areas. These models are estimated using two measures the poverty rate and the squared poverty gap and by family type. I find that cyclical forces have a much stronger effect on the poverty rate in nonmetro areas in comparison to metro areas but the effects are similar for the squared poverty gap; wage growth has a pronounced effect on... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18909 |
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Kuku-Shittu, Oluyemisi; Gundersen, Craig; Garasky, Steven B.. |
Previous work on the relationship between food insecurity and childhood overweight has lead to a wide array of answers – some have found a positive relationship, others no relationship, and still others a negative relationship. This previous work has shared one thing in common – all have used parametric models. In this paper we move beyond parametric models by using non-parametric models. With data from the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and a wide array parametric methods, we find evidence across different samples of a positive relationship, no relationship, and a negative relationship between childhood overweight and food insecurity. When we turn to non-parametric methods, however, this ambiguity across samples is not... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6163 |
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Jolliffe, Dean; Tiehen, Laura; Gundersen, Craig; Winicki, Joshua. |
In 2000, 8.8 million children received food stamps, making the Food Stamp Program a crucial component of the social safety net. Despite its importance, little research has examined the effect of food stamps on children's overall well-being. Using the Current Population Survey from 1989 to 2001, we consider the impact of food stamps on three measures of poverty - the headcount, the poverty gap, and the squared poverty gap. These measures portray the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty. We find that in comparison to the headcount measure, food stamp benefits lead to large reductions in the poverty gap and squared poverty gap measures. We then simulate the effects of several changes in the distribution of food stamps and find that a general... |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food stamps; Children; Poverty; Current Population Survey; Sample design; Food Security and Poverty. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33833 |
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Gundersen, Craig; LeBlanc, Michael; Kuhn, Betsey A.. |
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) dramatically transformed and continues to transform the food assistance landscape in the United States. The Act cut more funds from the Food Stamp Program than it did from any other program, through reductions in benefits per person and restrictions in eligibility. Despite these cuts, food stamps now have a more prominent role in the post-welfare reform social safety net because the largest cash-assistance entitlement program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), was replaced with the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program, a nonentitlement program. This leaves the Food Stamp Program as one of the only remaining entitlement programs available to... |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food stamps; Transfer payments; Food consumption; Nutrition; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty. |
Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33993 |
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Oliveira, Victor; Gundersen, Craig. |
After controlling for self-selection bias, participation in the WIC program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) has a significant positive effect on children's intakes of iron, folate, and vitamin B-6. Iron is one of the five nutrients targeted by the program, the others being protein, calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C. Folate and vitamin B-6, along with zinc, were recommended by a 1991 USDA study as nutrients that the program should also target. The data set used, the 1994-96 Continuing Survey of Food Intake by Individuals, reflects the dramatic increase during the 1990's in the number of children in the program. |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: WIC; Nutrient intake; Self-selection bias; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty. |
Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33803 |
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