Explaining the Food Stamp Cash-Out Puzzle
Breunig, Robert; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Gunderson, Craig; Pattanaiktaff, Prasanta
Description
Empirical studies have shown that food stamp participants spend a higher proportion of their benefit on food than they would with an equivalent amount of cash. Our study demonstrates that this result can be explained by the decision making behavior of multi-adult households. Multi-adult households spend a higher proportion of their food stamp benefit than they would with an equivalent amount of cash. In contrast, single-adult households show little difference in food spending between food...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2001 |
Type: | Working/Technical Paper |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/40369 http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/40369 |
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