Table A1 –

Exclusion Restrictions Test

Dependent Variable	Simulated share of children eligible for public health insurance	SNAP outreach spending per person income <150% poverty
Governor is Democrat (lagged 1 year)	−0.006 [0.012]	−0.001 [0.007]
Poverty Rate (lagged 1 year)	−0.001 [0.003]	−0.001 [0.002]
Log State General Revenue (lagged 1 year)	−0.112 [0.069]	−0.150 [0.092]
# Observations	892	950

Sources: State level data from TRIM3, SIPP, USDA, SNAP Policy Database, University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center for 1993–2001.

Notes: Simulated share of children eligible for public health insurance is averaged across all children in the SIPP for each state across the years. Robust standard errors clustered by state in brackets.

^*p < 0.1,

^**p < 0.05,

^***p < 0.01.