How Does the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Affect the U.S. Economy?

Jeffrey Reimer, Senal Weerasooriya and Tyler T. West

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2015, vol. 44, issue 3, 20

Abstract: The impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on the national economy is examined using a general equilibrium model and comparing measures of the economy from 2010 to a simulation of that economy without SNAP. Without the SNAP program, the overall size of the economy hardly differs—demand for labor increases slightly. However, households that would be eligible for SNAP experience a net loss. They have 5.5 percent less disposable income while ineligible households have approximately 1 percent more income without SNAP, and output of products eligible for purchase with SNAP funds declines approximately one billion dollars.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Marketing; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.225656

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