SNAP Matters
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SNAP Matters

How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well-Being

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

SNAP Matters

How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well-Being

About this book

In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP). By 2013, the program's fiftieth year, more than one in seven Americans received benefits at a cost of nearly $80 billion. Renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2008, it currently faces sharp political pressure, but the social science research necessary to guide policy is still nascent.

In SNAP Matters, Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy M. Smeeding, and James P. Ziliak bring together top scholars to begin asking and answering the questions that matter. For example, what are the antipoverty effects of SNAP? Does SNAP cause obesity? Or does it improve nutrition and health more broadly? To what extent does SNAP work in tandem with other programs, such as school breakfast and lunch? Overall, the volume concludes that SNAP is highly responsive to macroeconomic pressures and is one of the most effective antipoverty programs in the safety net, but the volume also encourages policymakers, students, and researchers to continue examining this major pillar of social assistance in America.

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INDEX
able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs), 6, 17, 21, 30, 44n5, 50
Abreveya, J., 152
Addo, O., 170
Affordable Care Act, 235
aging of the population, 7, 24, 38
Agriculture Act of 2014, 5, 69
Ahn, H-M., 191
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 228, 236, 246, 247; block-grant change, 244; growth of, 6; relationship to SNAP participation, 6, 32, 34, 141, 142; waivers, 31, 32, 34, 42, 43. See also Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Alaimo, K., 80
Alaska: SNAP benefits in, 5, 62, 189
Almond, D., 49, 155, 161, 173, 248, 249
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA): increases in SNAP benefits under, 5, 33, 38, 44n5, 45n17, 55, 84, 102n7, 111, 116, 117, 127, 154
Andrews, M., 232, 240n23
application and recertification process: certification intervals, 91, 92, 93, 101; for SBP/NSLP, 190, 193, 207, 209n10; for SNAP, 4, 6, 8, 22, 23, 24, 30, 32, 34, 42, 63, 64, 68, 69n4, 79, 163, 178n5, 189, 228
Armor, D. J., 51
Aussenberg, R., 215
Autor, D., 20, 24
average treatment effect (ATE), 83, 102n10
average treatment effect on the treated (ATET), 83
Balistreri, K. S., 84, 251
Barrett, C. B., 77–78, 80
Bartfeld, J., 13–15, 84, 190, 191, 238n5
Bartlett, S., 29, 153, 154
Basiotis, P., 177n1
Basu, S., 246
Baum, C., 172–73
Beatty, T., 154
Becker, G. S., 77
behavioral economics, 111, 156
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. One. Why Are So Many Americans on Food Stamps? The Role of the Economy, Policy, and Demographics
  10. Two. The Effect of SNAP on Poverty
  11. Three. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Food Insecurity
  12. Four. SNAP and Food Consumption
  13. Five. The Health and Nutrition Effects of SNAP: Selection into the Program and a Review of the Literature on Its Effects
  14. Six. SNAP and Obesity
  15. Seven. SNAP and the School Meal Programs
  16. Eight. Multiple Program Participation and the SNAP Program
  17. Conclusion
  18. Index
  19. Series List