COEP Replication Package for "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Food Expenditures: Evaluating California's Cash-out Policy"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Erik Hembre, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Shogher Ohannessian, University of Illinois at Chicago; Katherine McElroy, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Project Citation:

Hembre, Erik, Ohannessian, Shogher, and McElroy, Katherine. COEP Replication Package for “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Food Expenditures: Evaluating California’s Cash-out Policy.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-05-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E202066V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper investigates how Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility affects food expenditures. A 2019 policy change in California granted SNAP eligibility to previously ineligible Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients. Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey, we find that after the policy change, affected SSI recipients increased their ``food at home'' budget share between 2.5 to 4.3 percentage points ($120 to $206 per quarter). The SNAP effect on total food expenditures is dampened by a decrease in ``food away from home'' which SNAP benefits cannot be spent on.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: SNAP; SSI; cash-out; food consumption

JEL Classification:
      H53 National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
      H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
      I30 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General

Manuscript Number: COEP-Aug-2023-0113.R2

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