TY - JOUR
T1 - Ineligible parents, eligible children
T2 - Food Stamps receipt, allotments, and food insecurity among children of immigrants
AU - Van Hook, Jennifer
AU - Balistreri, Kelly Stamper
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by a grant from the Joint Center for Poverty Research and the USDA Food Assistance Program. Infrastructure support was provided by a center grant to the Center for Family and Demographic Research from the National Institutes of Health [R21-HD-42831-01]. Further support was provided by the National Institutes of Health [R01-HD-39075-1]. The authors would like to acknowledge Rebecca Clark, Randy Capps, and Darren Lubotsky for their helpful comments and suggestions.
Copyright:
Copyright 2005 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2006/3
Y1 - 2006/3
N2 - The Personal Responsibility, Work, and Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) made non-citizens ineligible for federally funded food assistance and reduced Food Stamp allotments (the amount of Food Stamps benefits provided) for households containing a mixture of citizens and non-citizens. Using the Survey of Program Dynamics, we assess the effects of PRWORA on household-level Food Stamps recipiency, Food Stamps allotments, and food security among the children of non-citizens. We find that the children of non-citizens experienced more persistent and higher levels of food insecurity following PRWORA's enactment than the children of citizens. While declines in Food Stamps allotments substantially explain the disproportionately high levels of food insecurity among the children of non-citizens in the year following welfare reform, high levels of food insecurity continued as late as 2001 among the children of non-citizens on account of both low allotments and Food Stamps receipt among those in need of food assistance.
AB - The Personal Responsibility, Work, and Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) made non-citizens ineligible for federally funded food assistance and reduced Food Stamp allotments (the amount of Food Stamps benefits provided) for households containing a mixture of citizens and non-citizens. Using the Survey of Program Dynamics, we assess the effects of PRWORA on household-level Food Stamps recipiency, Food Stamps allotments, and food security among the children of non-citizens. We find that the children of non-citizens experienced more persistent and higher levels of food insecurity following PRWORA's enactment than the children of citizens. While declines in Food Stamps allotments substantially explain the disproportionately high levels of food insecurity among the children of non-citizens in the year following welfare reform, high levels of food insecurity continued as late as 2001 among the children of non-citizens on account of both low allotments and Food Stamps receipt among those in need of food assistance.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2004.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2004.09.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:28844465438
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 35
SP - 228
EP - 251
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
IS - 1
ER -
