The Transformation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
The Transformation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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DOI：
10.1002/pam.20601
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发表时间：
2011-09-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Danielson, Caroline
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作者：
Klerman, Jacob Alex;Danielson, Caroline
在2000至2005年间，补充营养。援助计划(SNAP)(直到最近，食品券计划)案件数量增加了一半随着大衰退的展开，SNAP案件数量增长更快。此外，在过去20年里，案件数量的构成急剧转变，从食物和现金援助相结合的家庭，转向在没有任何其他主要的、经经济状况调查的收入支助的情况下接受食物援助的家庭。通过单独分析案件量的组成部分，我们对粮食和现金援助政策以及经济对1990年代和2000年代期间案件量构成的变化和大量案件量波动的影响提供了新的、更有洞察力的估计。我们发现，经济可以解释案件数量变化的一部分，但不能解释构成变化。食品和现金援助政策有助于解释这两个变化。总体而言，SNAP和福利政策变化结合在一起，约占自1994年以来SNAP家庭接受食物而不是现金援助的比例急剧增加的一半。(C)2011年，公共政策分析和管理协会。
Between 2000 and 2005, the Supplemental Nutrition. Assistance Program (SNAP until recently, the Food Stamp Program) caseload increased by half As the Great Recession unfolded, the SNAP caseload grew even more rapidly. Further, over the past two decades the composition of the caseload has shifted sharply away from families combining food and cash assistance and toward families receiving food assistance in the absence of any other major, means-tested income support. By analyzing components of the caseload separately, we provide new and more insightful estimates of the effects of food and cash assistance policies and the economy on both the change in the composition of the caseload and the large caseload swings over the 1990s and 2000s. We find that the economy can explain a portion of caseload changes, but not compositional shifts. Food and cash assistance policies help to explain both changes. In total, the combination of SNAP and welfare policy changes account for about half of the sharp increase since 1994 in the share of SNAP households receiving food, but not cash, assistance. (C) 2011 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.