This $701,218.00 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a research project at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) that examines the interactions among major government safety net programs in the U.S., including SNAP, WIC, Medicaid, and CHIP. The research aims to study how to better administer these programs to improve targeting and analyze their impacts on outcomes like education, employment, wages, and health. To do this, the researchers will link multiple high-quality administrative datasets. The results are expected to help decision-makers improve the efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and well-being impacts of these transfer programs. The award also includes a $94,000 sub-grant to the University of Colorado-Denver to collaborate on the research by linking data and evaluating program effects.
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