The impact of safety net programs on early-life developmental outcomes

Corneliu Bolbocean and Frances A. Tylavsky

Food Policy, 2021, vol. 100, issue C

Abstract: Existing scholarly evidence suggests that early-life environments play a critical role in shaping an individual’s long-term socioeconomic outcomes. The impact of safety net programs on early-life environments and outcomes is largely unknown.

Keywords: Human capital; Early-life developmental outcomes; WIC; SNAP; Safety-net programs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C5 H5 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919220302244
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jfpoli:v:100:y:2021:i:c:s0306919220302244

DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.102018

Access Statistics for this article

Food Policy is currently edited by J. Kydd

More articles in Food Policy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().