Table A2 –

Sample Selection Test

Dependent Variable	HH Income below 200 poverty threshold in the current month	HH Income below 250 poverty threshold in the current month	HH Income below 300 poverty threshold in the current month	HH Income below 350 poverty threshold in the current month	HH Income below 400 poverty threshold in the current month
Simulated share of children eligible for public health insurance	0.086*** [0.028]	0.091*** [0.034]	0.077** [0.033]	0.055* [0.031]	0.034 [0.022]
SNAP outreach spending per person income <150% poverty	0.102 [0.074]	0.112 [0.074]	0.095 [0.074]	0.100 [0.081]	0.067 [0.049]
# Observations	61,013	61,013	61,013	61,013	61,013
Instruments are jointly different from zero
F-test	6.51	5.56	4.6	2.56	2.28
P-value	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.09	0.11

Sources: Weighted Survey of Income and Program Participation, state policy, and economic data for 1992, 1995, 1998, 2003, 2005, 2010, and 2011.

Notes: The sample is restricted to respondents of hardship questions. Robust standard errors clustered by state in brackets. Models also included controls for demographic characteristics of the household, state economic considition state and year fixed effects (see Section 4 for the complete list of controls).

^*p < 0.1,

^**p < 0.05,

^***p < 0.01.