Table 5

Impact of Safety-Net Programs on Food Insecurity: OLS and Main Instrumental Variables Results

OLS
1		OLS
2		2SLS
3		2SLS
4		2SLS
5		2SLS
6		2SLS
7		2SLS
8
Imputed potential Real cash and food0.0073**
(0.0013)		0.0056**
(0.0016)		−0.0108*
(0.0045)		−0.0110*
(0.0046)
Imputed potential real cash−0.0093*
(0.0042)		−0.0095*
(0.0045)
Imputed potential real TANF−0.0038
(0.0077)		−0.0026
(0.0074)
Imputed potential real SSI−0.0082
(0.0160)		−0.0120
(0.0164)
Imputed potential real EITC−0.0482
(0.0438)		−0.0885
(0.0795)
Imputed potential real food−0.0143
(0.0109)		−0.0144
(0.0106)		−0.0137
(0.0113)		−0.0083
(0.0101)
Imputed Medicaid eligibility0.0781**
(0.0149)		0.0368*
(0.0170)		0.1116
(0.0748)		0.0720
(0.1052)		0.1170
(0.0730)		0.0785
(0.1047)		0.1767 +
(0.0922)		0.1791
(0.1189)
Extra policy and economic controlsNoYesNoYesNoYesNoYes

  • ↵Notes: Outcome is Food Insecurity, which includes low food security and very low food security families. Standard errors in parentheses clustered on state. +, *, and ** indicate statistical significance at the 10, 5, and 1 percent levels. Controls are the same as those in Table 4. Additional policy controls are listed in Table 2. Additional economic controls are employment status, under 100 percent of poverty, and under 200 percent of poverty. Amounts in thousands of real 2005 dollars. Weighted by CPS sample weights. Number of observations = 28,194.