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Dynamics Of Poverty And Food Sufficiency

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Ribar, David C.
Hamrick, Karen S.

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This study examines dynamics in poverty and food insufficiency using newly available longitudinal data from the 1993 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation SIPP) and the follow-on Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD). The study uses these data to characterize the incidence and dynamics of poverty and food problems for the entire U.S. population and for different subgroups. It also estimates multivariate, discrete-choice regression models to examine the factors associated with transitions into and out of poverty and food insufficiency, and it analyzes the empirical results in the context of a life-cycle model of income and food consumption. Results indicate that the incidence of food insufficiency in the United States is low-less than 3 percent in 1997. There also appears to be little persistence in food problems; 79 percent of people in households with food problems at the start of the study period were in households without problems 2 years later. The multivariate results indicate that female-headed households face an especially high risk of being food insufficient. Low levels of asset income, an indicator of a household's ability to spread out consumption costs over time, are also associated with food sufficiency problems.

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Paper provided by United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service in its series Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Reports with number 33851.

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Keywords: food sufficiency; food insufficiency; food security; food insecurity; poverty; well-being; hunger; Food Security and Poverty;

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  1. Lawrance, Emily C, 1991. "Poverty and the Rate of Time Preference: Evidence from Panel Data," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 99(1), pages 54-77, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Jayanta Bhattacharya & Steven Haider & Janet Currie, 2002. "Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy," NBER Working Papers 9003, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Gundersen, Craig & Kreider, Brent, 2006. "Food Stamps and Food Insecurity: What Can Be Learned in the Presence of Non-classical Measurement Error?," Staff General Research Papers 12690, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
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  2. Dutta, Indranil & Gundersen, Craig & Pattanaik, Prasanta K., 2006. "Measures of Food Insecurity at the Household Level," Working Papers RP2006/95, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER). [Downloadable!]
  3. Craig Gundersen, 2008. "Measuring the extent, depth, and severity of food insecurity: an application to American Indians in the USA," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 21(1), pages 191-215, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Sheila Mammen & Jean W. Bauer & Leslie Richards, 2008. "Understanding Persistent Food Insecurity: A Paradox of Place and Circumstance," Working Papers 2008-6, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
  5. Mykerezi, Elton & Mills, Bradford, 2009. "On Intra-Annual Poverty in the U.S.: Prevalence, Causes and Response to Food Stamp Program Use," Staff Papers 49095, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics. [Downloadable!]
  6. Craig Gundersen & David C. Ribar, 2005. "Food Insecurity and Insufficiency at Low Levels of Food Expenditures," IZA Discussion Papers 1594, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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