The supplemental nutrition assistance program and food insecurity

CA Gregory, MP Rabbitt, DC Ribar - SNAP Matters: How food …, 2015 - degruyter.com
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is intended to help lowincome households
obtain more nutritious food than they could otherwise afford. In so doing, SNAP should—in …

Food stamps, food insecurity, and health outcomes among elderly Americans

TY Pak, GS Kim - Preventive medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
This study examined associations between very low food security and health outcomes in
older adults, and tested whether participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance …

Household history, SNAP participation, and food insecurity

CA Swann - Food Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
Food security in an important public policy issue. In 2015, approximately 1 in 8 US
households experienced food insecurity at some point in the year. Low-income families are …

Income, poverty, and material hardship among older Americans

H Levy - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2015 - rsfjournal.org
Using data from the 2008 and 2010 waves of the Health and Retirement Study to analyze
the determinants of material hardship among individuals ages sixty-five and older, I look at …

The effect of SNAP and school food programs on food security, diet quality, and food spending: Sensitivity to program reporting error

KM Kang, RA Moffitt - Southern Economic Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
There is an extensive research literature on the effects of the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) on food‐related outcomes which has shown somewhat mixed …

Transition to adulthood: Dynamics of disability, food security, and SNAP participation

B Guo, J Huang, SL Porterfield - Journal of adolescence, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction This study examines how the transition to adulthood may affect food security for
individuals with disabilities and estimates the effects of SNAP participation on their food …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring the Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation on Food Insecurity Using a Behavioral Rasch Selection Model

MP Rabbitt - 2014 - researchgate.net
This paper examines the relationship between Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP) participation and food insecurity using data from the 2001-2008 Current Population …

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J Marton, C Courtemanche, J Jones, A Denteh… - 2022 - cpr.uky.edu
Senior participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has
traditionally been lower than other groups, with historical estimates below 50 percent. We …

[PDF][PDF] Food Security in a Snap: How does the Combined Application Project Increase Elderly SNAP Participation Rates and Food Security?

A Parthan - 2023 - economics.virginia.edu
Abstract In 2015, only 42% of eligible seniors participated in the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) while approximately 5.1 million seniors (7%) faced some level …

The Relationship Between Snap Participation Levels and Food Insecurity at the County Level

R Hentges - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has grown
from $24.6 billion in 1995 to $60.4 billion in 2019. Despite this increase in spending, food …