@article{Boonsaeng:124839,
      recid = {124839},
      author = {Boonsaeng, Tullaya and Carpio, Carlos E. and Zhen, Chen  and Okrent, Abigail M.},
      title = {The Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on  Food Spending Among Low-Income Households},
      address = {2012},
      number = {323-2016-11829},
      series = {Selected Paper},
      pages = {27},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {The main goal of this paper is to provide current  information on the impacts of Supplemental Nutrition  Assistant Program (SNAP) on food spending across two food  subgroups: food at home (FAH) and food away from home  (FAFH). Data was obtained from the BLS‟s Consumer  Expenditure Survey and Detailed Monthly Consumer Price  Indices from years 1998 to 2009. Censoring of expenditures  and the endogeneity of the SNAP participation variable are  accounted for with the use of specialized econometric  procedures. We found that SNAP participation increases FAH  by $25 and decreases expenditures on food away from home by  $32. Since the average SNAP benefits received by  participants in the program is $80, the marginal propensity  to consume of food at home out of SNAP benefits is 0.31.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/124839},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.124839},
}