PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Chloe N. East
TI  - The Effect of Food Stamps on Children’s Health
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.55.3.0916-8197R2
DP  - 2020 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 387--427
VI  - 55
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/2/387.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/2/387.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2020 Mar 31; 55
AB  - The Food Stamp program is currently one of the largest safety net programs in the United States and is especially important for families with children. The existing evidence on the effects of Food Stamps on children’s and families’ outcomes is limited. I utilize a large, recent source of quasi-experimental variation—changes in documented immigrants’ eligibility across states and over time from 1996–2003—to estimate the effect of Food Stamps on children’s health. I find loss of parental eligibility has large effects on program receipt, and an additional year of parental eligibility before age five improves health outcomes at ages 6–16.