Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

By D. Almond, H. Hoynes, D. Schanzenbach. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011

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Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions

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In Gender Studies

1. Blaise Melly
2. Giulia Santangelo
3. Nathaniel Hendren
4. Janet Currie
5. M. Sen
6. D. Almond
7. L. Cooke

In General Health Professions

1. Giulia Santangelo
2. Blaise Melly
3. Nathaniel Hendren
4. Janet Currie
5. D. Almond

Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health (2019, background): “The Food Stamp Program, a War on Poverty initiative first developed in the 1930s during the Great Depression and later revived in the 1960s, is linked to improvements in birth outcomes.(35) Efforts in education, housing, and child health insurance have also led to improved health outcomes for issues”
• Race as a Bundle of Sticks: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics (2016, background): “Similarly, birth weight can vary significantly by race, but evidence from twin studies and other natural experiments suggests that a variety of manipulable factors, such as maternal access to food stamps, can positively influence intrauterine nutrition, birth weight, neonatal mortality, adult school”
• The changes-in-changes model with covariates (2015, methodology): “To keep the size of this paper reasonable we present only results for white mothers based on the first specification in Almond, Hoynes, and Schanzenbach (2011).”
• A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies* (2019, unknown): “30 Hoynes and Schanzenbach (2012) exploit this variation to analyze its impact on labor income and welfare participation of adult beneficiaries; Almond et al. (2011) study its impact on birth outcomes. Bailey et al. (2019) use the same variation to study its impacts on the adult earnings of children”
• The Policy Elasticity (2016, background): “If one wished to add such effects, one could take the causal effects from Almond et al. (2012) and multiply by the valuation of the externality along the lines discussed in Appendix C.”
• The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes (2013, unknown): “Almond et al. (2011) find that program exposure raised birth weights, and Hoynes and Schanzenbach (2009) find that the program raised food expenditures, but only by an amount equal to the marginal propensity to consume out of incremental income. Program recipients face significant cash constraints, ”
• U.S. Food and Nutrition Programs (2015, unknown): “Studies of Impacts on Child Health Outcomes Almond, Hoynes, and Schanzenbach (2011) National Vital Statistics data on births 1968-1977 Difference in difference and event study analysis of food stamp program rollout; examine effects of exposure to SNAP on birth outcomes, low birth weight SNAP exposur”
• Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis (2011, background): “Prenatal iodine supplementation [Field, Robles, and Torero, 2009], Food Stamps [Almond, Hoynes, and Schanzenbach, 2011], and the Supplemental Feeding Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) are important exceptions.”