| Strengthening
Economic Incentives in Food Assistance Programs |
Commodity Supplemental Food Program:
Participation and Administration
Kenneth Finegold
The Urban Institute. Washington, DC
This project will combine administrative data with telephone
interviews in nine States and field work at eight sites to
assess how the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
fits into States’ overall designs to address food insecurity
among target populations, how States administer the program,
why some States choose not to participate, who among the eligible
population tend to participate, and expectations for the future
of the CSFP.
Assistance Type Cooperative Agreement: $210,000
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The
Processes of Getting and Staying on Food Stamps in South Carolina
David Ribar
George Washington University. Washington, DC
Using administrative data for South Carolina, the project
will examine how household Food Stamp Program (FSP) policies
such as recertification intervals, time limits for able bodied
adults without children, and outreach activities affect decisions
to apply, the length of stay on the program, and decisions
to exit the program. The study will focus on how these policy
effects differ across various household types, including those
with and without earnings, as well as according to the number
of adults, the presence of elderly adults, and the presence
of children.
Cooperative Research Agreement: $200,000 |
Evaluation
of State Food Policy Changes as Incentives To Foster Improved
Middle School Lunch Selection and Consumption
Karen Cullen
Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, TX
This study will examine how well recent Texas school food
policy changes act as incentives to improve middle school
students’ food selection and consumption from various
school sources, including the National School Lunch Program,
snack bars, and vending machines. A new Texas school policy
targeting all school food environments takes effect during
the 2005-06 school year, and data obtained from students in
three schools during that period will be compared with data
from the 2001-02 and 2002-03 school years.
Grant: $149,085 |
Effective
Tax Rates and Guarantees and Food Stamp Program Participation
James Ziliak
University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY
Concern has arisen about possible work-disincentive effects
of Food Stamp Program rules that impose high effective tax
rates on families choosing to increase their work effort and
about program actions that effectively reduce the level of
program guarantees. The rules in question reduce actual benefits
from cash transfers and the Food Stamp Program. This study
will examine the impact of these effective tax rates and guarantees
on household food stamp participation decisions, conditional
on other macroeconomic, demographic, and policy factors. The
analysis will be based on administrative data combined with
national survey data for 1983-2003.
Cooperative Research Agreement: $100,000 |
Determinants
of the Food Stamp Caseload
Jacob Klerman
RAND. Santa Monica, CA
This study will examine the determinants of the large drop
in the Food Stamp caseload in the 1990s and large rise in
the mid-2000s. State-level panel data constructed from the
Food Stamp Program Quality Control administrative data from
1990 to 2004 will be used. The analysis will consider the
separate effects of Food Stamp Program policy, welfare policy,
and the economy.
Assistance Type Cooperative Agreement: $125,000 |
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Choices, Diet Quality, Obesity, and Health Outcomes |
Food Insecurity and Outcomes for
Infants and Toddlers in the ECLS-B
Jacinta Bronte-Tinkew
Child Trends. Washington, DC
The subject of this study is the association between food
insecurity and a variety of health, nutrition, motor development,
cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes for infants and
toddlers. Researchers will determine how the associations
and pathways differ based on characteristics of children and
their families, including birth weight, income, parental nativity,
and participation in food assistance programs. The study will
use data from the 9- and 24-month waves of the Early Childhood
Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B).
Assistance Type Cooperative Agreement: $200,000 |
Economic
Determinants of School Meal Participation
Ashlesha Datar
RAND. Santa Monica, CA
This project will examine the factors associated with variations
in participation in USDA’s school meals programs at
both the school and individual level, with particular emphasis
on how participation varies with local food prices. Data from
the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort
(ECLS-K) will be combined with contextual data on local area
food prices, and on neighborhood and school district characteristics.
Researchers will use the data to examine the neighborhood,
school, family, and individual characteristics associated
with elementary school children’s participation in the
National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program.
Assistance Type Cooperative Agreement: $199,971 |
| Food Assistance as a Safety Net |
Household Food Security and Tradeoffs in the Food Budget: A Revitalized Engel Approach Including Food Stamps
Parke Wilde
Tufts University. Boston, MA
This project will model and analyze the relationship between
Food Stamp Program benefits, household spending decisions
for food consumed at home and away from home, and the implications
of those decisions for household food security. The empirical
analysis will use data from the Current Population Survey
Food Security Supplement and the Food Stamp Program Quality
Control system files for years 2001-2004.
Cooperative Research Agreement: $75,000 |
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