Food Stamp Benefits and Child Poverty
利用1989至2001年当前人口调查数据，分析食品券对儿童贫困的影响，发现食品券显著降低贫困缺口和平方贫困缺口，但对贫困人口比例影响较小。
Abstract In 2000, 8.8 million children lived in households participating in the Food Stamp Program, making this assistance program a crucial component of the social safety net. Despite its importance, little research has examined food stamps' effect on children's overall well‐being. Using the Current Population Survey from 1989 to 2001, we consider the impact of food stamps on three measures of poverty—the headcount, the poverty gap, and the squared poverty gap. We find that in comparison to the headcount measure, food stamp benefits lead to large reductions in the poverty gap and squared poverty gap measures.