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The Disenrollment and Labor Supply Effects of SNAP Work Requirements

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  • Jason B. Cook
  • Chloe N. East

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Neoclassical economic theory predicts that ordeals, such as work requirements, improve transfer program targeting. Means-tested transfer programs in the U.S. are increasingly adding or considering adding work requirements. We provide the first causal estimates of the two largest work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). We leverage the fact that once the youngest child in the household turns six, many heads of household become subject to these requirements. Using novel administrative SNAP data linked with state administrative earnings records, we find these requirements have no impacts on labor supply, but important SNAP disenrollment effects that reduce the targeting of SNAP benefits.

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  • Jason B. Cook & Chloe N. East, 2024. "The Disenrollment and Labor Supply Effects of SNAP Work Requirements," NBER Working Papers 32441, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:32441
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    1. Lisa Barrow & Bea Rivera & Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, 2024. "Work, Poverty, and Social Benefits Over the Past Three Decades," Working Papers 24-22, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
    2. Jason B. Cook & Chloe N. East, 2023. "The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers," NBER Working Papers 31307, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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    JEL classification:

    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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