PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - East, Chloe N.
TI  - The Effect of Food Stamps on Children’s Health: Evidence from Immigrants’ Changing Eligibility
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.55.3.0916-8197R2
DP  - 2018 Sep 05
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0916-8197R2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2018/09/04/jhr.55.3.0916-8197R2.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2018/09/04/jhr.55.3.0916-8197R2.full
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 to 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 5 improves health outcomes at ages 6-16.