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Food Insecurity and Homelessness in the Journeys Home Survey

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  • Herault, Nicolas
  • Moschion, Julie
  • Ribar, David C.

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Homelessness not only deprives people of comfort, safety, and dignity but may also cause other problems, including food insecurity. This study uses data from the Journeys Home survey, a large national longitudinal survey of disadvantaged Australians who were homeless or at risk of homelessness, to estimate multivariate behavioural Rasch models of the association between homelessness and food insecurity. The Journeys Home survey includes an extensive set of measures of people's circumstances that we include in our models. We also estimate dummy endogenous variable specifications. All our specifications indicate that homelessness is associated with higher (worse) food insecurity for men. We find unconditional associations in the same direction for women, but these become statistically insignificant when we include extensive sets of observed controls in our models or estimate dummy endogenous variable specifications. Finally, we investigate how homelessness is related to food consumption, meal consumption, and food expenditures. Food expenditures are negatively associated with homelessness for men in all our specifications; however, the other food outcomes for men and women do not show consistent, statistically significant associations.
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  • Herault, Nicolas & Moschion, Julie & Ribar, David C., 2016. "Food Insecurity and Homelessness in the Journeys Home Survey," 2016 Conference (60th), February 2-5, 2016, Canberra, Australia 235586, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aare16:235586
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.235586
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    4. Guy Johnson & David C. Ribar & Anna Zhu, 2017. "Women's Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2017n07, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
    5. Chandana Maitra, 2024. "How food insecure are people living in Australia," Working Papers 2024-14, University of Sydney, School of Economics, revised Aug 2024.
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    7. Ferdi Botha & David C. Ribar & Chandana Maitra & Roger Wilkins, 2024. "The co‐occurrence of food insecurity and other hardships in Australia," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 46(4), pages 1319-1337, December.

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    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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