COVID-19 Relief Receipt and U.S. Household Food Expenditures.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

COVID-19 relief payments and programs may have contributed to the shift in food expenditures from food away from home to food at home during the pandemic. This shift has public health implications given the differences in the nutritional quality between food at home and food away from home. The objective of this study is to examine the association between COVID-19 relief and household food at home and food away from home expenditure shares. Economic Impact Payments, Pandemic-Electronic Benefits Transfer, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and charitable food receipt are considered.

Methods

Food expenditure and COVID-19 relief data for 265,443 households were obtained from Phase 3.1 (April 28 to July 5, 2021) of the Household Pulse Survey. Poisson pseudo-

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC11388698 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature