Table A3 –

The Effect of Extended Policy Instrument in Program Participation

Dependent Variable	HH Receives TANF, SNAP or Public Health Insurance	HH Receives TANF	HH Receives SNAP	HH Receives Public Health Insurance
Simulated share of children eligible for public health insurance	0.206*** [0.024]	0.112*** [0.021]	0.098*** [0.026]	0.219*** [0.027]
SNAP outreach spending per person income <150% poverty	0.102* [0.061]	0.078*** [0.026]	0.120** [0.057]	0.078 [0.068]
SNAP all legal noncitizen adults eligible	0.024* [0.013]	−0.004 [0.010]	−0.003 [0.011]	0.025 [0.016]
SNAP some noncitizen adults eligible	−0.010 [0.012]	0.008 [0.009]	0.012 [0.009]	−0.008 [0.014]
State uses BBCE	0.010 [0.013]	−0.020*** [0.006]	0.011 [0.010]	0.006 [0.013]
Fingerprinting	0.023* [0.013]	0.008 [0.007]	−0.008 [0.013]	0.027** [0.012]
One vehicle excluded from asset test	0.008 [0.011]	−0.004 [0.007]	0.003 [0.009]	0.005 [0.012]
TANF maximum monthly benefit for family of three ($/100)	0.010 [0.008]	−0.006* [0.003]	0.003 [0.005]	0.015* [0.008]
TANF maximum number of months eligibility extended to pregnant women without other child	0.000 [0.003]	0.003 [0.002]	0.000 [0.002]	−0.001 [0.003]
# Observations	43,650	43,650	43,650	43,650
Weak Instrument Tests
Olea and Pflueger effective F-test	8.42
τ =10%	15.73

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 households with income below 400 percent of the federal poverty threshold at the month of interview. 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.