The Effects of Food Stamp Benefits on the Market Labor of Female Heads of Households – Final Report

Thomas Fraker, Robert A. Moffitt and David Ribar

No 359093, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture

Abstract: Excerpt from the Executive Summary: This report presents results from an econometric study of the effects of the Food Stamp Program on work effort. A model of the house-hold's joint decision regarding market labor and participation in the Food Stamp and AFDC programs is specified and estimated on a sample of female heads of households with dependent children. Estimates of the model's parameters are used to predict how work effort and program participation would be affected by selected hypothetical changes in rules governing food stamp benefit amounts. The feedback effects of these responses on average and aggregate benefit levels are also examined.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Labor and Human Capital; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 86
Date: 1985-03
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.359093

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