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Does the Food Stamp Program Affect Food Security Status and the Composition of Food Expenditures?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Suwen Pan  and
Helen H. Jensen
Suwen Pan
Affiliation:
Huazhong Agricultural University & research scientist at Texas Tech University
Helen H. Jensen
Affiliation:
Iowa State University
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Abstract

This article considers interaction among participation in the Food Stamp Program (FSP), food security status, and the composition of food expenditures. A quadratic almost ideal demand system with a bootstrapping two-step method of estimation is applied to data from the Current Population Survey–Food Security Supplement data and used to estimate the model and account for endogeneity between the FSP participation and food insecurity. The results show that FSP participation is endogenously related with food security status and significantly affects total food expenditure and food-away-from-home expenditures.

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food away from homefood insecurityfood stampsQ18R21I32

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , April 2007 , pp. 21 - 35
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2008

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