@inbook{b50f17c69ec7491bab988a464e183e34,
title = "SNAP and Food Consumption",
abstract = "This chapter describes the relationship between SNAP and food spending. It presents the neoclassical framework for analyzing in-kind transfers such as SNAP, which unambiguously predicts an increase in food spending, and follows with an explanation of the SNAP benefit formula. The chapter then presents new evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey on food spending patterns among households overall, SNAP households, and other subgroups of interest. Results show that a substantial fraction of SNAP households spend an amount that is above the program's needs standard and that small families are more likely than large families to spend more on food than the needs standard amount. Actual benefit levels are smaller than the needs standards, and most families spend more on food than their predicted benefit allotment. Because of this, the neoclassical model implies that most families treat their benefits like cash.",
author = "Hoynes, {Hilary W.} and Leslie McGranahan and Schanzenbach, {Diane Whitmore}",
year = "2015",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "978-0804796835",
series = "Studies in Social Inequality",
pages = "107--133",
editor = "Judith Bartfeld and Craig Gundersen and Timothy Smeeding and Ziliak, {James P}",
booktitle = "SNAP Matters",
}