Jolliffe, Dean; Tiehen, Laura; Gundersen, Craig; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2003
-being. Using the Current Population Survey from 1989 to 2001, we consider the impact of food stamps on three measures of poverty … - the headcount, the poverty gap, and the squared poverty gap. These measures portray the incidence, depth, and severity of … poverty. We find that in comparison to the headcount measure, food stamp benefits lead to large reductions in the poverty gap …