Can access to restaurant meals under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program lead to obesity?
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) makes an exception to its rules, which allows elderly and/or disabled individuals, their spouses, as well as homeless beneficiaries, to buy hot prepared food from restaurants if they live in a state that participates in the Restaurant Meals Program (R...
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| description | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) makes an exception to its rules, which allows elderly and/or disabled individuals, their spouses, as well as homeless beneficiaries, to buy hot prepared food from restaurants if they live in a state that participates in the Restaurant Meals Program (RMP). Using the staggered countywide adoption timeline in California, coupled with a stacked difference-in-differences empirical strategy, I examine the intent-to-treat (ITT) nutritional effects of RMP on the elderly population. Overall, I find no evidence that obesity rates for the elderly are any different in counties with RMP versus those without RMP. I can statistically rule out moderate effects. Additional evidence from some of the early-adopting counties suggests that RMP is associated with a reduction in food insecurity among the elderly. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-025b4e4fc07941928dcfb2c6233226782025-08-20T03:12:47ZengCambridge University PressAgricultural and Resource Economics Review1068-28052372-261412410.1017/age.2025.4Can access to restaurant meals under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program lead to obesity?Ayesha Jamal0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6954-2073Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business, Department of Economics and Finance, Murray State University, Murray, KY, USASupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) makes an exception to its rules, which allows elderly and/or disabled individuals, their spouses, as well as homeless beneficiaries, to buy hot prepared food from restaurants if they live in a state that participates in the Restaurant Meals Program (RMP). Using the staggered countywide adoption timeline in California, coupled with a stacked difference-in-differences empirical strategy, I examine the intent-to-treat (ITT) nutritional effects of RMP on the elderly population. Overall, I find no evidence that obesity rates for the elderly are any different in counties with RMP versus those without RMP. I can statistically rule out moderate effects. Additional evidence from some of the early-adopting counties suggests that RMP is associated with a reduction in food insecurity among the elderly.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1068280525000048/type/journal_articlefood insecurityobesityRestaurant Meals ProgramSNAPI14I18I3 |
| spellingShingle | Ayesha Jamal Can access to restaurant meals under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program lead to obesity? Agricultural and Resource Economics Review food insecurity obesity Restaurant Meals Program SNAP I14 I18 I3 |
| title | Can access to restaurant meals under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program lead to obesity? |
| title_full | Can access to restaurant meals under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program lead to obesity? |
| title_fullStr | Can access to restaurant meals under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program lead to obesity? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Can access to restaurant meals under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program lead to obesity? |
| title_short | Can access to restaurant meals under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program lead to obesity? |
| title_sort | can access to restaurant meals under the supplemental nutrition assistance program lead to obesity |
| topic | food insecurity obesity Restaurant Meals Program SNAP I14 I18 I3 |
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