‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible
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Barnes, C; Riel, V
Published in: Administration and Society
November 1, 2022
Scholars have focused on administrative burden or the costs of claiming public benefits. Learning, psychological, and compliance costs can discourage program participation and benefit redemption. Using 60 in-depth qualitative interviews with participants of the SNAP and WIC programs, we offer thick descriptions of how beneficiaries experience compliance, learning, and redemption costs—a subset of learning costs regarding how to redeem benefits—amidst COVID-19 policy changes. Although policy changes were poised to reduce compliance costs and ease conditions that create redemption costs in each program, the learning costs of policy changes prevented many program participants from experiencing the benefits of these policy transformations.
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Administration and Society
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1552-3039
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0095-3997
Publication Date
November 1, 2022
Volume
54
Issue
10
Start / End Page
1902 / 1930
Related Subject Headings
- Political Science & Public Administration
- 4408 Political science
- 4407 Policy and administration
- 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
- 1606 Political Science
- 1605 Policy and Administration
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Barnes, C., & Riel, V. (2022). ‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible. Administration and Society, 54(10), 1902–1930. https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997211073948
Barnes, C., and V. Riel. “‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible.” Administration and Society 54, no. 10 (November 1, 2022): 1902–30. https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997211073948.
Barnes C, Riel V. ‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible. Administration and Society. 2022 Nov 1;54(10):1902–30.
Barnes, C., and V. Riel. “‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible.” Administration and Society, vol. 54, no. 10, Nov. 2022, pp. 1902–30. Scopus, doi:10.1177/00953997211073948.
Barnes C, Riel V. ‘I don’t know nothing about that’: How “learning costs” undermine COVID-related efforts to make SNAP and WIC more accessible. Administration and Society. 2022 Nov 1;54(10):1902–1930.
Published In
Administration and Society
DOI
EISSN
1552-3039
ISSN
0095-3997
Publication Date
November 1, 2022
Volume
54
Issue
10
Start / End Page
1902 / 1930
Related Subject Headings
- Political Science & Public Administration
- 4408 Political science
- 4407 Policy and administration
- 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
- 1606 Political Science
- 1605 Policy and Administration