Are People Ashamed of Paying with Food Stamps?

Robert Breunig, R. and Indraneel Dasgupta ()

ANU Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics from Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics

Abstract: As is amply documented, there appears to be a large discrepancy between the marginal propensity to purchase food out of cash income and that out of food stamps. In this paper, we have examined both the formal and empirical bases of the claim that marginal welfare stigma explains this puzzling empirical regularity.

Keywords: SOCIAL; WELFARE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 1999-11
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