The Monthly Food Stamp Cycle: Shooping Frequency and Food Intake Decisions in an Endogenous Switching Regression Framework

By Parke E. Wilde, C. Ranney. 2000

331 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Justine S. Hastings
2. Jesse M. Shapiro
3. W. Kerr
4. Ebonya L. Washington
5. John V. Winters
6. Richard Florida
7. John V. Winters
8. Kent M. Hymel

In General Health Professions

1. Jesse M. Shapiro
2. W. Kerr
3. Justine S. Hastings
4. Ebonya L. Washington

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Jesse M. Shapiro
2. M. Barnes
3. W. Kerr
4. Justine S. Hastings
5. Christiana Stoddard
6. Trenton G. Smith
7. Ebonya L. Washington

Citations in the corpus

• Could Behavioral Economics Help Improve Diet Quality for Nutrition Assistance Program Participants (2012, neutral): “Because benefits are distributed only once a month, there is evidence of a period of overconsumption shortly after benefits are distributed, followed by a period of rationing, or under-consumption later in the cycle (Wilde and Ranney, 2000).”
• Food Security (2018, positive): “(14, 48) It has been proposed that a cyclic food consumption pattern (involving a food acquisition cycle, (54) where insufficient food at the end of an income period follows a period of over-eating early in the income cycle) may be a contributing factor to overweight and obesity amongst some welfare”
• Why the Poor Get Fat: Weight Gain and Economic Insecurity (2009, background): “The dramatic relationship between food stamp distribution dates and dietary intake has since been confirmed empirically ( Wilde and Ranney 2000, Wilde and Andrews 2000).”
• Food Insecurity is Associated with Diabetes Mellitus: Results from the National Health Examination and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999–2002 (2007, neutral): “The association between food insecurity and diabetes may also stem from the cyclic nature of food insecurity, either because of monthly paychecks, monthly Food Stamp Program assistance, or periodic, unforeseen competing needs.(2,35,36) Individuals with episodic underconsumption may overcompensate du”
• The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses (2010, positive): “Our results are consistent with those of Wilde and Ranney (2000) and Shapiro (2005) who use expenditure survey data to document a food spending cycle amongst Food Stamp recipients.”
• Is There a Daily Discount Rate? Evidence from the Food Stamp Nutrition Cycle (2005, methodology): “This average household had $620 in gross income and contained 2.3 individuals.4 I will make use of three datasets in my analysis, each appropriate for studying different aspects of 3See Wilde and Ranney (1997, 2000) for notable recent exceptions.”
• Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Kindergarten Classroom: Its Effect on Learning and Growth (2003, background): “, when food stamps run out before the end of the month) (Dietz, 1995; Wilde and Ranney, 2000).”