Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) makes an exception to its rules, which allows elderly and/or disabled individuals, their spouses, as well as homeless beneficiaries, to buy hot prepared food from restaurants if they live in a state that participates in Cleansing Milk the Restaurant Meals Program (RMP).Using the staggered countywide adoption timeline in California, coupled with a stacked difference-in-differences empirical strategy, I examine the intent-to-treat (ITT) nutritional effects of RMP on the elderly population.Overall, I find no evidence that obesity rates for the elderly are any different in counties with RMP versus those without APPLICATION KIT RMP.
I can statistically rule out moderate effects.Additional evidence from some of the early-adopting counties suggests that RMP is associated with a reduction in food insecurity among the elderly.