New Social Program Participation During the Great Recession: The Case of SNAP*

Little research has explored whether social policies aimed at lessening economic hardship affect the prevalence of bullying, particularly after the Great Recession. This article investigates how the strains of neighborhood and cumulative disadvantage are associated with racial differences in bullying, and we consider whether social program participation—enlistment in needs-based social programs to attenuate poverty and disadvantage—upends race-based differences in bullying. Using probit, negative binomial, and propensity score matching methods, we show that adolescents who experience any markers of disadvantage are more likely to bully others, with Black and Hispanic adolescents being more likely to engage in bullying than Whites. Importantly, matched estimates reveal that participation in needs-based social programs eliminates racial differences in bullying.

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Three essays on labor economics

10.32469/10355/88142 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Tapas Paul

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Great Recession ◽

Labor Market Participation ◽

Program Participation ◽

Journal Entry ◽

Journal Publication ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Added Worker Effect ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

The Impact

This dissertation addresses labor market issues. The first two chapters deal with employment issues during the great recession using nationally representative data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The first chapter looks at the added worker effect in the great recession, the wife's labor market response to a husband loss of job. The second chapter investigates the impact of a wife's labor market participation on family poverty. The third chapter examines employment opportunities in the economics discipline using journal publication records from IDEAS/RePEc. It looks at the effect of new journal entry on the distribution of publicati

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Changes in Safety Net Use During the Great Recession

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.p20151056 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 105 (5) ◽

pp. 161-165 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Patricia M. Anderson ◽

Kristin F. Butcher ◽

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Keyword(s):

Great Recession ◽

Safety Net ◽

Program Participation ◽

Social Safety Net ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Net Use ◽

Poverty Levels

We examine how participation in social safety net programs differs by income-to-poverty levels, and how that relationship changed after the Great Recession. We define income-to-poverty based on the average of 2 years of merged CPS data, and investigate program participation among households with income less than 300 percent of poverty. We find changes in both the level and distribution of safety-net program participation during the Great Recession, with SNAP expanding most at the bottom, the EITC expanding most in the middle, and UI expanding most at the top of the income ranges that we investigate; TANF did not expand.

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Health Care Use, Out-of-Pocket Expenditure, and Macroeconomic Conditions during the Great Recession

The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy ◽

10.1515/bejeap-2014-0016 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 119-156 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Juan Du ◽

Takeshi Yagihashi

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Great Recession ◽

Health Care Use ◽

Care Utilization ◽

Program Participation ◽

Consumer Expenditure ◽

Macroeconomic Conditions ◽

Individual Level ◽

The Great Recession ◽

The Individual

Abstract We study how macroeconomic conditions during the Great Recession affected health care utilization and out-of-pocket expenditures of American households. We use two data sources: the Consumer Expenditure (CE) Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); each has its own advantages. The CE contains quarterly frequency variables, and the SIPP provides panel data at the individual level. Consistent evidence across the two datasets shows that utilization of routine medical care was counter-cyclical, whereas hospital care was pro-cyclical during the Great Recession. When we examine the pre-recession period, the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and health care use was either non-existent or in opposite directions, suggesting that this relationship may have been unique to the Great Recession.

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Program Participation in the Show Me State: Missouri Responds to the Great Recession

Strengths of the Social Safety Net in the Great Recession: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance and Unemployment Insurance ◽

10.17848/9780880996648.ch9 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 325-354

Author(s):

Colleen M. Heflin ◽

Peter R. Mueser

Keyword(s):

Great Recession ◽

Program Participation ◽

The Great Recession

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Rent burden and the Great Recession in the USA

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098016665953 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 226-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Gregg Colburn ◽

Ryan Allen

Keyword(s):

Great Recession ◽

Household Composition ◽

Program Participation ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Policy Responses ◽

Policy Domain ◽

Privileged Status ◽

Before And After ◽

The Usa ◽

Household Responses

In the aftermath of the recent recession, the percentage of households facing rent burden in the USA reached historically high levels, while cost burden for owners has shrunk. This study uses two panels from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to compare the prevalence, distribution and household responses to the phenomenon of rent burden in the USA in the years immediately before and after the Great Recession. Results suggest that rent burden has become more prevalent after the recession and that income, household composition and location are major drivers of this phenomenon, both before and after the recession. Results also indicate that exiting rent burden was more difficult in the years after the recession and that an increasingly common coping mechanism for rent burdened households is to increase their household sizes. These results indicate that renters have experienced increased financial stress related to their housing. This finding is notable given the lack of policy responses that address hardship among renter households in contrast to the privileged status enjoyed by homeowners in the policy domain.

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State Fiscal Policy during the Great Recession

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ◽

10.1177/0002716213500459 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 650 (1) ◽

pp. 252-273 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Andrea Louise Campbell ◽

Michael W. Sances

Keyword(s):

Great Recession ◽

Personal Income ◽

Social Program ◽

Economic Downturn ◽

State Budget ◽

Political Factors ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Original Analysis ◽

Public Sector Unions ◽

Home Values

Plunging tax revenues and soaring social program demand during the Great Recession created state budget shortfalls of historic magnitude. After reviewing states’ aggregate reaction to the economic downturn, we conduct an original analysis of the recession’s budgetary impact on the states and their policy responses. Economic factors such as falling personal income and home values explain much of the variation in the recession’s impact. State budgeting rules and practices conditioned states’ experiences, but not always as intended: budget gaps were smaller in states with stricter balanced budget requirements, but larger in states with statutory spending limitations. Personal income tax increases were more likely in states with a Democratic legislature or greater public unionization rates, while midyear spending cuts were smaller in states with larger public sector unions. In sum, we find that while states’ objective economic situations determined the bulk of their responses to the Great Recession, political factors determined these responses’ shape and form.

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