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Title: The Impacts of the Food Stamp Program on Mortality

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: This study examines the effect of food stamps on health. Specifically, we use the county-level rollout of the Food Stamp Program from 1961 to 1975 as a source of variation in access to food stamps in order to examine food stamps’ single-year and multi-year effects on various county- year level mortality rates using fixed effects models. We consider aggregate mortality rates, subgroup rates for sex, race groups, and age groups, and rates for specific causes of death to examine the mechanisms through which food stamps affect health. We find mixed results for the entire 1969 to 1978 county sample that indicate small or zero overall effects of access to food stamps on mortality rates. However, among subsamples of poorer counties, we find that food stamps tend to reduce most mortality rates over time.

Url: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d824/39f47f0f82d13de19d5a8260973c84bdcd4c.pdf

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Authors: Jones, Jordan; Courtemanche, Charles; Marton, James

Publisher: Georgia State University

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Other

Countries: United States