Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program - The Review of Economic Studies (www.restud.com)
We use novel, large-scale data on 17.5 million Americans to study how a policy-driven increase in economic resources affects children’s long-term outcomes. Using the 2000 Census and 2001-2013 American Community Survey linked to the Social Security Administration’s NUMIDENT, we leverage the county-level roll-out of the Food...
