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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
EXPLAINING THE FOOD STAMP CASH-OUT PUZZLE
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| Autores: |
Breunig, Robert
Dasgupta, Indraneel
Gundersen, Craig
Pattanaik, Prasanta
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| Data: |
2004-12-09
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| Ano: |
2001
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| Palavras-chave: |
Food Stamp Program
Cash transfers
Cash-out puzzle
Welfare stigma
Cournot model
Intra-household distribution
Engel curves
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty
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| Resumo: |
Empirical studies have shown that food stamp participants spend a higher proportion of their benefit on food than they would with an equivalent amount of cash. Our study demonstrates that this result can be explained by the decision-making behavior of multi-adult households. Multi-adult households spend a higher proportion of their food stamp benefit than they would with an equivalent amount of cash. In contrast, single-adult households show little difference in food spending between food stamps and an equivalent amount of cash. Because over 30 percent of food stamp participants are in multi-adult households, switching from food stamps to cash may reduce food purchases of these needy households. If that is indeed the case, the use of food stamps and other in-kind benefits may be more desirable than other forms of assistance.
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| Tipo: |
Report
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
15440
http://purl.umn.edu/33869
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
United States Department of Agriculture>Economic Research Service>Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Reports
Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report Number 12
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| Formato: |
30
application/pdf
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