Valuing food store access: Policy implications for the food stamp program

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 162-172

  Feather, Peter M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Choice sets; Discrete choice model; Electronic benefit transfer; Food stamps; Truncated Poisson model; Welfare measures

Indexed keywords

SUBSIDY SYSTEM; WELFARE IMPACT; WELFARE PROVISION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037327161     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8276.00110     Document Type: Article

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