Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supplyt

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gray, Colin; Leive, Adam; Prager, Elena; Pukelis, Kelsey; Zaki, Mary
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Northwestern University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20200561
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 306-341
• 关键词: regression discontinuity design; food stamp participation; welfare-reform; disability; income; manipulation; earnings; consumption; transfers; payments

摘要

Work requirements are common in US safety net programs. Evidence remains limited, however, on the extent to which work requirements increase economic self-sufficiency or screen out vulnerable individu-als. Using linked administrative data on food stamps (SNAP) and earn-ings with a regression discontinuity design, we find robust evidence that work requirements increase program exits by 23 percentage points (64 percent) among incumbent participants. Overall program partici-pation among adults who are subject to work requirements is reduced by 53 percent. Homeless adults are disproportionately screened out. We find no effects on employment and suggestive evidence of increased earnings in some specifications. (JEL H75, I18, I32, I38, J22, J31)