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100 _aFlores-Lagunes, Alfonso
_9121988
245 0 _aMoving policies toward racial and ethnic equality: The case of the supplemental nutrition assistance program*
260 _bAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics
260 _c2024
300 _a573-594
520 _aWe analyze the role played by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in alleviating or exacerbating inequality across racial and ethnic groups in food expenditures and in the resources needed to meet basic food needs (the "food resource gap"). To do this, we propose a simple framework that decomposes differences across groups in SNAP benefit transfer levels into three components: eligibility, participation, and generosity. This decomposition is then linked to differences in food expenditures and the food resource gap. Our results reveal that among the three components, differences in eligibility contribute the most to SNAP benefits differentials for Black and Hispanic households relative to White households. Given that SNAP is often a target of policy changes, we employ the framework to provide counterfactual analyses of how selected SNAP policy changes can impact group differences in benefits and, ultimately, disparities in food expenditures and the food resource gap. The proposed framework can be applied to analyze other safety net programs.
650 _a Decomposition
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650 _a Race and Ethnicity
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650 _a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
_9121989
650 _aInequality
700 _a Jales, Hugo B.
_9121990
700 _a Liu, Judith
_9121991
700 _a Wilson, Norbert L.
_9121992
856 _uhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajae.12402
999 _c134189
_d134189