The Food Stamp Participation and Labor Supply of Married Couples: An Empirical Analysis of Joint Decisions

Abstract

This paper examines lhe effect of the Food Stamp Program on intrafam-ily labor supply and program participation decisions. Married couples si-multaneotisly choose the labor supply of the husband and wife and whether to participate in the Eood Stamp Program. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the author estimates a nested multinomial logit model. Simulations indicate smaller labor sup-ply effects to changes in the food stamp benefit than the previous re-search which focused on single parents. Married-couple program partici' pation is found to be relatively responsive to changes in food stamp benefits. I.

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