Impact of Safety-Net Programs on Food Insecurity: Alternative 2SLS Specifications
| Dependent Variable: | 1 Baseline | 2 Instruments Based on State-Year Variation Only | 3 Instruments Based on State-Year-Disability Variation Only | 4 Outcome Is Employment | 5 Outcome Is Income as a Percent of Poverty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food-Insecure | Food-Insecure | Food-Insecure | Employed | Family Income/Poverty | |
| Imputed potential real cash and food | −0.0108* (0.0045) | −0.1075 + (0.0628) | −0.0253** (0.0060) | 0.0025 (0.0058) | −0.2631 (0.7790) |
| Imputed Medicaid eligibility | 0.1116 (0.0748) | 0.1956 (0.1197) | −0.0069 (0.0685) | −0.0887 (0.0684) | −54.8854** (13.4999) |
↵Notes: Standard errors in parentheses clustered on state. + and ** indicate statistical significance at the 10, 5, and 1 percent levels. All regressions include state fixed effects, year fixed effects, and controls in Column 3 in Table 5. Amounts in thousands of real 2005 dollars. Weighted by CPS sample weights.