When does it count? The timing of food stamp receipt and educational performance

Cotti, Chad; Gordanier, John; Öztürk, Orgül

doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.06.007

Cited by 24 publications

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“…This paper contributes to this important, policy‐relevant discussion by exploring the monthly cyclicality of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment and analyzing how changes in the timing of benefits affect the levels and timing of abuse. In particular, our findings fit into a larger literature suggesting that such benefits are considered fungible, and that the timing effects of government transfers affect other outcomes, including crime (Carr & Packham, 2019; Foley, 2011; Hsu, 2016) and test scores (Cotti, Gordanier, & Ozturk, 2017). We note that any perceived fungibility can contribute to the effects we find, especially if it influences purchases of alcohol or drugs, which are correlates of domestic violence.…”

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confidence: 80%

SNAP Schedules and Domestic Violence

Carr¹,

Packham²

2020

J Policy Anal Manage

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This paper exploits a policy change in Illinois that altered monthly nutritional assistance benefits dates to estimate the impact of in‐kind benefit receipt on domestic violence. We find that issuing SNAP benefits on days other than the first of the month increases domestic crimes. On average, we find the shifting benefit dates increases domestic abuse by 6.9 percent and child maltreatment by 30.0 percent. We posit that these effects are driven by increases in opportunities for conflict or changes in drug use.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 80%

SNAP Schedules and Domestic Violence

Carr¹,

Packham²

2020

J Policy Anal Manage

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“…Older children increase reliance on school meals toward the end of the SNAP cycle but choose nonsubsidized options earlier in the SNAP month. That said, whether this behavior results in decreases in healthy eating or declines in nutritional intake remains a question for future work, as suggested by Cotti et al (2018) which shows lower academic performance at the end of the SNAP cycle.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While current research shows that household food purchases and consumption of certain goods decrease at the end of the SNAP month, evidence of the effects of SNAP benefit exhaustion on child food consumption is limited. Most research focused on children examines the effect of the timing of SNAP payments on health and school outcomes such as test scores (Cotti, Gordanier, and Ozturk 2018;Gassman-Pines and Bellows 2018) and student discipline (Gennetian et al 2016).…”

Section: Snap and Food Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does School Lunch Fill the “SNAP Gap” at the End of the Month?

Laurito

Schwartz

2019

Southern Economic Journal

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This article investigates the relationship between the timing of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit payments and participation in school lunch and breakfast using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey. An event study approach examines participation over the five‐day window before and after the SNAP payment. We find that school lunch participation decreases by 17–23 percentage points immediately after the SNAP payment among 11–18 year olds while breakfast drops by 19–36 percentage points. The decline begins the day prior to payment. We find no effects for 5–10 year olds. Models examining participation over the full SNAP month using individual fixed effects yield similar findings. Among teenagers, participation in school lunch and breakfast decline in the first two weeks of the SNAP month, increasing afterward. Non‐school meals show the opposite pattern. Overall, results indicate SNAP households rely more on school lunch and breakfast toward the end of the SNAP month.

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“…Furthermore, other studies have shown notable changes in student academic success based on social ties, namely ties with both the family and school (Stubbs & Maynard, 2017). These indings highlight that students who experienced challenges in the family are at greater risk of maintaining academic engagement and success, which is often tied to emotional problems (Cotti, Gordanier, & Ozturk, 2018;Dzever, 2015). Although previous research provides consistent evidence that positive family functioning is an important correlate and possibly predictor of academic performance, the mutual or reciprocal links between family functioning and school engagement has not been directly established, and therefore, calls for additional research.…”

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Family environment and school engagement:An investigation of cross‐lagged effects

Harris

Vazsonyi

Özdemir

et al. 2020

Journal of Adolescence

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Introduction: Although an extensive body of work has shown that family functioning is linked to adolescent outcomes, less is known about how the family affects school outcomes and vice versa. The present longitudinal study tested reciprocal relationships between the family environment and school engagement during the middle school years. Methods: A cross-lagged latent model tested these effects in 378 Turkish youth (53.7% males; M = 11.73, SD = 0.53) evaluated annually (Waves 1, 2, and 3) in grades 6 through 8. Results: Findings showed the family environment positively predicted developmental changes in school engagement at each time point (β range = 0.18 to 0.24); school engagement also positively predicted developmental changes in the family environment (β range = 0.12 to 0.28). Follow-up multigroup tests by age, sex, and family structure showed that the reciprocal links between the family environment and school engagement were invariant. Conclusions: Study indings supported reciprocal longitudinal links between developmental changes of the family environment and school engagement. They extend previous research by highlighting the continued importance of the home environment on developmental changes in academic performance in adolescents, and thus, inform parents, educators, and policymakers on the relevance of the family in promoting academic engagement and achievement in adolescence.

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When does it count? The timing of food stamp receipt and educational performance

Cited by 24 publications

References 29 publications

SNAP Schedules and Domestic Violence

SNAP Schedules and Domestic Violence

Does School Lunch Fill the “SNAP Gap” at the End of the Month?

Family environment and school engagement:An investigation of cross‐lagged effects

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