Ineligible parents, eligible children: Food Stamps receipt, allotments, and food insecurity among children of immigrants

Hook, Jennifer Van; Balistreri, Kelly Stamper

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2004.09.001

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“…Rates of food insecurity are higher in the low-income immigrant population compared to the low-income native population (Capps, 2001;Van Hook & Balistreri, 2006). It is well documented that low-income immigrant families have less education, work at lower-quality jobs (as defined by wage rates and benefits), and are less likely to participate in government benefit programs than their native counterparts.…”

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Mothers' citizenship status and household food insecurity among low-income children of immigrants

Kalil

Chen

2008

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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Recent data have shown that children of immigrant noncitizens experience more persistent and higher levels of food insecurity than the children of citizens following welfare reform. However, little is known about the range of factors that might explain different rates of food insecurity in the different populations. In this study, the authors used national data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort to assess this question, using multivariate probit regression analyses in a low-income sample. They found that households of children (foreign and U.S.-born) with noncitizen mothers are at substantially greater risk of food insecurity than their counterparts with citizen mothers and that demographic characteristics such as being Latina, levels of maternal education, and large household size explain about half of the difference in rates.

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“…In particular, after welfare reform, children of immigrant noncitizens experienced more persistent and higher levels of food insecurity compared to the children of citizens (Van Hook & Balistreri, 2006).…”

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Mothers' citizenship status and household food insecurity among low-income children of immigrants

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Chen

2008

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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“…For example, using Canadian and U.S. Census data Bloemraad (2006) finds that rates of naturalization among immigrants in Canada, which has a multiculturalist policy regime, are relatively higher than those for immigrants in the United States, where federal policy with respect to the civic incorporation of immigrants is, by comparison, more laissez-faire. In another example, Van Hook and Balistreri (2006) found that children living in households with noncitizens experienced steeper declines in food support and increases in food insecurity following the enactment of legislation that cut public assistance programs to noncitizens.…”

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“…In the context of anti-immigrant policies and attitudes that treat societal outsiders differently, citizenship status among the foreign born is a crucial indicator of social and political incorporation in the United States (Van Hook, Brown, and Bean 2006) and other immigrant-receiving societies (Bloemraad 2006), and is strongly associated with political participation, access to public assistance, health care, and jobs (Passel, Clark and Fix 1997; DeSipio 2001; Fix and Zimmermann 2001; Van Hook and Balistreri 2006). Citizenship is also a key variable for the production of estimates of the characteristics of the unauthorized foreign-born population (Passel, Van Hook, and Bean 2006).…”

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Citizenship Reporting in the American Community Survey

Hook¹,

Bachmeier²

2013

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Background Citizenship status among the foreign born is a crucial indicator of social and political incorporation, yet there are good reasons to suspect that citizenship status is inaccurately reported on U.S. surveys. Objective This paper updates research carried out in the mid-1990s by Passel and Clark (1997) on the extent to which foreign-born non-citizen respondents in U.S. government-sponsored surveys misreport as naturalized citizens. Methods We compare demographic estimates of the resident naturalized foreign-born population in 2010, based on administrative data, to estimates from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS). Results Similar to previous research, we find that misreporting in the ACS is especially high among immigrants from all countries/regions who report fewer than five years in the U.S. We also find that among longer-term foreign-born residents, misreporting is concentrated only among those originating in Mexico, especially men, a finding that diverges from Passel and Clark in that we find no evidence of over-reporting among immigrants from Central America and the Caribbean. Finally, the estimated magnitude of misreporting, especially among longer-term Mexican-born men, is sensitive to assumptions about the rate of emigration in our administrative-based demographic estimates, and assumptions about coverage error in the ACS, though altering these assumptions does not change the conclusions drawn from the general patterns of the results. Conclusions For applications that use citizenship as an indicator of legal status, we recommend that self-reported data on citizenship be accepted at face value for all groups except those with less than five years of U.S. residence and Mexican men.

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“…However, the empirical literature on the impacts of SNAP has produced mixed results. Several studies have documented the expected negative relationship between SNAP and food insecurity (Van Hook & Ballistreri, 2006;Nord & Prell, 2011;Schmidt et al, 2016), but others have found statistically insignificant or even positive associations (Gundersen & Oliveira, 2001;Hofferth, 2004;Huffman & Jensen, 2003;Wilde et al, 2005;Hoynes & Schanzenbach, 2015). SNAP is also often found to be positively correlated with obesity, but some studies find insignificant or negative effects (Meyerhoefer and Pylypchuk, 2008;Gundersen, 2015;Nguimkeu et al, 2017;Denteh, 2017).…”

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Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation

Courtemanche¹,

Denteh²,

Tchernis³

2018

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Ineligible parents, eligible children: Food Stamps receipt, allotments, and food insecurity among children of immigrants

Cited by 96 publications

References 12 publications

Mothers' citizenship status and household food insecurity among low-income children of immigrants

Mothers' citizenship status and household food insecurity among low-income children of immigrants

Citizenship Reporting in the American Community Survey

Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation

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