1/ New working paper: “Paying for Payment Errors: State Incentives and Caseload Responses to SNAP Cost Sharing.”
I study the incentives created by SNAP’s new state cost-sharing rules, and whether those incentives help explain the recent caseload decline.
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Paying for Payment Errors: State Incentives and Caseload Responses to SNAP Cost Sharing
Abstract Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) caseloads declined by 10% nationally from June 2025 to April 2026, even as the unemployment rate ticked up. Recent commentary has attributed...
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