If at first you don't succeed: applying for and staying on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

David Ribar and Christopher Swann

Applied Economics, 2014, vol. 46, issue 27, 3339-3350

Abstract: We examine households' applications to and participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program using administrative records from South Carolina. We model application resolutions with multinomial logit (MNL) specifications where the possible outcomes are acceptance, denial due to income ineligibility, denial due to a failure to provide sufficient information and denial due to other reasons. For cases with successful applications, we model the durations of participation spells using competing risk hazard specifications that distinguish among exits that result from missed recertifications, financial ineligibility, incomplete or missing information and other reasons. The application and hazard outcomes depend on past programme behaviour and observed characteristics. The results indicate that a household's application and participation history affect its subsequent application success and programme tenure.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.929623

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