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3 weeks ago | 
ramaonhealthcare.com | Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach |Jessica Bylander
Podcast: Food, Nutrition & Health: Food Support Programs w/ Diane Schanzenbach Health Affairs April 2, 2025Jessica Bylander, Diane Whitmore SchanzenbachWelcome to the second episode in a special four-part series from Health Affairs on the intersection of food, nutrition, and health. This special series compliments the release of a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health to be released April 7, 2025.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach |Michael Strain
Real-Time EvidenceThe monthly, refundable advance CTC payments were disbursed during a period when the labor market was recovering from the pandemic shock and other pandemic-era economic supports were undergoing changes. In July 2021, the national unemployment rate was 5.4 percent, down a percentage point from January and on a path of steady decline to 3.9 percent by December.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
direct.mit.edu | Diane Whitmore |Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach |Julia Turner |Sarah Turner
School of Education and Social Policy and Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, NBER© 2024 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
aei.org | Michael Strain |Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
AbstractThe 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion increased government benefits to families, andespecially to families with the lowest incomes. Economic theory predicts that this policyintervention would have led to a reduction in labor supply among adults in those families. Ourreview of available research suggests that employment within broadly defined demographicgroups was not reduced by the 2021 CTC changes.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
nber.org | Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach |Michael Strain
We thank Duncan Hobbs for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Related
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
zephyrnet.com | Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
School lunches shouldn’t make kids unhealthy or overweight. But they did. Now, a νέα μελέτη suggests that the 2010 federal Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act and the momentum leading up to it may have helped put a stop to that by reducing calories and increasing nutritional levels for the meals served via the 77-year-old National School Lunch Program.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
zephyrnet.com | Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
School lunches shouldn’t make kids unhealthy or overweight. But they did. Now, a nieuwe studie suggests that the 2010 federal Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act and the momentum leading up to it may have helped put a stop to that by reducing calories and increasing nutritional levels for the meals served via the 77-year-old National School Lunch Program.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
nber.org | Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach |Julia Turner |Sarah Turner
The authors thank Kirabo Jackson and Ofer Malamud for helpful conversations. All errors are our own. J. Turner gratefully acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Julia A. Turner Julia Turner is generously funded by the National Science Foundation under the Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
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Jan 27, 2023 | 
ipr.northwestern.edu | Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
The Impact of SNAP Emergency Allotments on SNAP Benefits and Food InsufficiencyIPR's Diane Schanzenbach estimates the allotments' amount and impact in a new reportby Diane Whitmore SchanzenbachOn average, EA payments reduce the likelihood that a household experiences food insufficiency by about 9%, with larger impacts for households with children with a Black or Hispanic respondent.” A store in Portland, Oregon, advertises that it accepts SNAP.
