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LOCATION:245 Sullivan Street
DESCRIPTION:*Please note this talk will take place at Furman
Hall, 245 Sullivan St., Room 326.

Jesse Shapiro, Brown University 
Title: "How are SNAP Benefits Spent? Evidence from
a Retail Panel" 


We use a novel retail panel with more than six
years of detailed transaction records to study the
effect of participation in the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on household
spending. We frame our approach using novel
administrative data from the state of Rhode
Island. The marginal propensity to consume
SNAP-eligible food (MPCF) out of SNAP benefits is
0.5 to 0.6.
URL;VALUE=URI:https://wagner.nyu.edu/community/events/wagner-seminar-series-jesse-shapiro-2017-11-09
SUMMARY:Wagner Seminar Series ― Jesse Shapiro
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