Issuance and Incidence: SNAP Benefit Cycles and Grocery Prices

We gratefully acknowledge Amanda Agan, Phil Armour, Lisa Barrow, Marianne Bitler, Sarah Cohodes, Julie Cullen, Janet Currie, Stefano DellaVigna, Alex Gelber, Matt Gentzkow, Justine Hastings, Janna Johnson, Nirupama Rao, Betsey Stevenson, Jesse Shapiro, Ebonya Washington, and seminar participants at Cornell, Columbia, Duke, Williams College, George Mason, NYU-Wagner, UT-Austin, UCSD, UBC, University of Chicago-Booth, RAND Corporation, and NBER Summer Institute and the NBER Conference on Food Security for conversations and suggestions that have greatly improved the quality of this project. Lawrence Jin, Katherine Rittenhouse, Jason Somerville, and Vedant Vohra provided excellent research assistance. Researchers own analyses calculated (or derived) based in part on data from The Nielsen Company (US), LLC and marketing databases provided through the Nielsen Datasets at the Kilts Center for Marketing Data Center at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The conclusions drawn from the Nielsen data are those of the researchers and do not reflect the views of Nielsen. Nielsen is not responsible for, had no role in, and was not involved in analyzing and preparing the results reported herein. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.