Dietary Effects of the Food Stamp Program

Barbara Devaney and Robert Moffitt

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1991, vol. 73, issue 1, 202-211

Abstract: Based on data from the 1979–80 Survey of Food Consumption in Low-Income Households, this paper estimates the effects of changes in cash income and the food stamp benefit on household nutrient availability, while controlling for two potential sources of selection bias. The major finding of the empirical analysis is that the estimated dietary effects of changes in food stamp benefits are considerably larger than those resulting from changes in cash income, with estimates of the ratios of the MPC for the food stamp benefit to the cash-income MPC ranging from three to seven across nutrients. No significant evidence of selection bias was found, and the estimated dietary effects of food stamp benefits from the selection bias models are similar to those from the basic model estimated by ordinary least squares regression.

Date: 1991
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