Does Food Assistance Drive Spending on Sugary Foods? Evidence from the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer Program -- by Georgina Cisneros, Brandyn F. Churchill

We are grateful to Kitt Carpenter, Monica Deza, Felipe A. Lozano-Rojas, Dave Marcotte, Taryn Morrisey, Lucie Schmidt, and seminar participants at American University for helpful comments. All phases of this study were supported by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, R01DK140192 (PI: Brandyn Churchill). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NIH or the National Bureau of Economic Research. The NIH had no role in the design or conduct of the study. Researchers’ own analyses calculated (or derived) based in part on data from Nielsen Consumer LLC and marketing databases provided through the NielsenIQ Datasets at the Kilts Center for Marketing Data Center at The University of Chicago School of Business. The conclusions drawn from the NielsenIQ data are those of the researchers and do not reflect the views of NielsenIQ. NielsenIQ is not responsible for, had no role in, and was not involved in analyzing and preparing the results reported herein. All interpretations, errors, and omissions are our own.