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"Economywide Impacts of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" Authors: Osanya, Jessica and Jeff Reimer Abstract Most SNAP research focuses on individuals who receive SNAP while ignoring the broader economy. We develop a general equilibrium model of the U.S. economy to quantify SNAP’s broader fiscal consequences. We find that SNAP expands the agricultural and food sectors by about 1% while shrinking service sectors favored by higher-income households. Effects on goods and factor prices are modest yet quantifiable, with virtually no distortionary effects (deadweight losses) of taxation to fund SNAP. SNAP improves the welfare of low-income recipient households by 4.9%, while having a negligible adverse effect on high-income households. |
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- Domestic policy analysis - North America |
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