@article{Dharmasena:162368,
      recid = {162368},
      author = {Dharmasena, Senarath and Ishdorj, Ariun and Capps, Oral,  Jr. and Bessler, David A.},
      title = {Dynamics of Macroeconomic Shocks on Food Assistance  Programs in the United States},
      address = {2014-01},
      number = {1374-2016-109321},
      pages = {17},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Monthly national and state-level U.S. data for the period  1997-2012 associated with macroeconomic shocks and  participation in food assistance programs were used to  model dynamics using polynomial distributed lags and vector  autoregression approaches. Contemporaneous causal flows of  macroeconomic shocks and participation in food assistance  programs were modeled using directed acyclic graphs. With a  more accurate set of predictions associated with  participation rates in food assistance programs based on  macroeconomic drivers or shocks, policy makers will be in  better position to assess program costs and to minimize  errors in the budgetary process.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/162368},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.162368},
}