Food Stamp Program Participation and Food Insecurity: An Instrumental Variables Approach

By Steven T. Yen, M. Andrews, Zhuo Chen, David Eastwood. 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Soil Science

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Food Insecurity Among Households With Working-Age Adults With Disabilities (2013, unknown): “Numerous studies that account for this selection effect find that SNAP benefits do indeed reduce food insecurity among recipients (DePolt et al., 2009; Gundersen and Oliveira, 2001; Nord, 2012; Nord and Golla, 2009; Ratcliffe et al., 2011; Wilde and Nord, 2005; Yen et al., 2008).”
Household Food Security in the United States in 2011 Statistical Supplement (2013, methodology): “More complex analysis using methods to account for this self-targeting is required to assess the extent to which the programs improve food security (see Ratcliffe and McKernan, 2011; Nord and Golla, 2009; Yen et al., 2008; Wilde and Nord, 2005; Gundersen and Oliveira, 2001; Gundersen and Gruber, 200”
Measuring the Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation on Food Security (Executive Summary) (2013, result): “Some extend back to the 1990s (Yen et al. [2008] and Mykerezi and Mills [2010] used data from 1996 and 1999, respectively), whereas others extend through the early to the mid-2000s (Ratcliffe, McKernan, and Zhang [2011] used three SIPP panels, which cover from 1996 to 2007; Nord and Golla [2009] use”
Household Food Security in the United States in 2012 (2013, unknown): “More complex analysis using methods to account for this self-targeting is required to assess the extent to which the programs improve food security (see Nord, 2012; Ratcliffe and McKernan, 2011; Nord and Golla, 2009; Yen et al., 2008; Wilde and Nord, 2005; Gundersen and Oliveira, 2001; Gundersen and”
How Are SNAP Benefits Spent? Evidence from a Retail Panel (2018, background): “Ratcliffe, McKernan, and Zhang (2011) and Yen et al. (2008) estimate the effect of SNAP and food stamps, respectively, on food insecurity, using state-level policy variables as excluded instruments.”
Household Food Security in the United States in 2013 (2014, methodology): “More complex analysis using methods to account for this self-targeting is required to assess the extent to which the programs improve food security (see Mabli et al., 2013; Nord, 2013; Nord, 2012; Nord and Prell, 2011; Ratcliffe and McKernan, 2011; Nord and Golla, 2009; Yen et al., 2008; Wilde and N”
Household Food Security in the United States in 2016 (2017, methodology): “More complex analysis, using methods to account for this self-targeting, is required to assess the extent to which the programs improve food security (see Gregory, Rabbitt, and Ribar, 2015, for a review of this literature and these methods; also see Mabli et al., 2013; Nord, 2013; Nord, 2012; Nord a”
Partial Identification Methods for Evaluating Food Assistance Programs: A Case Study of the Causal Impact of SNAP on Food Insecurity (2017, unknown): “…Jensen (2002), Hoynes and Schanzenbach (2009), Meyerhoefer and Pylypchuk (2008), Mykerezi and Mills (2010), Van Hook and Balistreri (2006), and Yen et al. (2008), for example, address the selection problem using instrumental variables within a linear response model, and Devaney and Moffitt…”
Household Food Security in the United States in 2015 (2016, methodology): “More complex analysis using methods to account for this self-targeting is required to assess the extent to which the programs improve food security (see Gregory et al., 2015 for a review of this literature and these methods; also see Mabli et al., 2013; Nord, 2013; Nord, 2012; Nord and Prell, 2011; ”
Does SNAP Decrease Food Insecurity? Untangling the Self-Selection Effect (2009, methodology): “Yen et al. (2008) applied an instrumental variables approach to National Food Stamp Participants Survey data, using Statelevel policy differences as identifying variables.”
Food Security Improved Following the 2009 ARRA Increase in SNAP Benefits (2012, background): “Untangling the two effects has presented great methodological diffi culties (Ratcliffe and McKernan, 2010; Nord and Golla, 2009; Yen et al., 2008; Gundersen and Oliveira, 2001).”
Household Food Security in the United States in 2017 (2018, methodology): “…for a review of this literature and these methods; also see Mabli et al., 2013; Nord, 2013; Nord, 2012; Nord and Prell, 2011; Ratcliffe and McKernan, 2011; Nord and Golla, 2009; Yen et al., 2008; Wilde and Nord, 2005; Gundersen and Oliveira, 2001; Gundersen and Gruber, 2001; Nelson et al., 1998).”
Household Food Security in the United States in 2014 (2015, methodology): “More complex analysis using methods to account for this self-targeting is required to assess the extent to which the programs improve food security (see Mabli et al., 2013; Nord, 2013; Nord, 2012; Nord and Prell, 2011; Ratcliffe and McKernan, 2011; Nord and Golla, 2009; Yen et al., 2008; Wilde and N”
Household Food Security in the United States in 2018 (2019, methodology): “…for a review of this literature and these methods; also see Mabli et al., 2013; Nord, 2013; Nord, 2012; Nord and Prell, 2011; Ratcliffe and McKernan, 2011; Nord and Golla, 2009; Yen et al., 2008; Wilde and Nord, 2005; Gundersen and Oliveira, 2001; Gundersen and Gruber, 2001; Nelson et al., 1998).”