Does Wal-Mart Cause an Increase in Anti-Poverty Program Expenditures?

摘要: As the largest private sector employer in United States, Wal-Mart experiences considerable scrutiny over its influence on a number of regional fiscal and economic issues. These include impact local retail market structure, land use patterns, conditions general business practices. Criticism Wal-Mart’s practices include, but are not limited to anti-unionization efforts, sale imported goods, wage compensation structure Federal state anti-poverty transfers by employees. In this paper I evaluate concerns regarding role changing expenditures States. Using panel conterminous 48 states, correcting for time spatial autocorrelation government mix policy changes, find Wal-Marts, their employment share have no Foodstamps expenditures. Expenditures AFDC/TANF unaffected test using stores represent presence. share, is negative, with 1 percent increase reduced 3.3 percent. that does Medicaid roughly $898 per worker, which consistent other studies costs low worker across