321 research outputs found
Up to 47 million Americans face more food insecurity because of proposed restrictions on SNAP food assistance program
No full textLast November the increase in benefits to the SNAP program of food assistance, put in place in 2009 as part of the American Recovery Act, expired. Craig Gundersen gives an overview of SNAP, writing that in 2012 it provided benefits to more than 47 million people. He argues that recent proposals that would fundamentally change and reduce SNAP assistance will reduce food security and well-being by increasing the program’s stigma and transaction costs, meaning that fewer households will enter the program. This is in contrast to recent reductions in SNAP benefits which will have more limited impacts
supplementary_material_revised - The Relation between Food Insecurity and Mental Health Care Service Utilization in Ontario
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Food insecurity exists in every county across the U.S., making food assistance critical for millions in need
No full textWhile food insecurity in America is by no means a new problem, it has been made worse by the Great Recession. Now, about 49 million people in the U.S. are living in food insecure households, and nearly 47 million receive assistance from national food banks. Looking at the results of Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap study, Elaine Waxman, Amy Satoh & Craig Gundersen write that unemployment is a major driver of the food insecurity which exists in every county in the U.S. They argue that food insecurity can be addressed through improving people’s participation in federal food assistance programs, especially among children
The Economics of Food Insecurity in the United States
No full textFood insecurity is experienced by millions of Americans, and its prevalence has increased dramatically in recent years. Due to its prevalence and many demonstrated negative health consequences, food insecurity is one of the most important nutrition-related public health issues in the U.S. In this article, we cover how economic insights and models have improved our understanding of the determinants of food insecurity, the effects of food insecurity on health outcomes, and the impact of food assistance programs on food insecurity. We conclude with a discussion of several issues where economists can provide further insights.This is a manuscript of an article published as Gundersen, Craig, Brent Kreider, and John Pepper. "The economics of food insecurity in the United States." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 33, no. 3 (2011): 281-303. doi: 10.1093/aepp/ppr022. Posted with permission.</p
Food insecurity in the U.S.: measurement and evaluation
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Previous issue date: 2016-11-30Most food insecurity research within the United States has focused on the headcount ratio of food insecurity, whic is,the percentage of households that are considered food insecure. Although this measure is important, using this measurealone, ignores the variation within the food hardship being experienced by U.S. households. In 2008, Dr. CraigGundersen translated the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke income poverty index to measure the extent, depth, and severity offood insecurity. Within chapter 1 of this paper, I use the income poverty index literature to define axioms that anappropriate food insecurity index would need to satisfy in order to accurately measure the depth of food insecurity. Itranslate income poverty indices from Kakwani, Chakravarty, and Watts and then evaluate how these indices as wellas the one proposed by Dr. Gundersen measure food insecurity within the U.S.. Within chapter 2, I use the foodinsecurity index proposed by Dr. Gundersen to evaluate how Broad Based Categorical Eligibility, a change in SNAPeligibility policy affected U.S. food insecurity between 2001 and 2013.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2017-02-28 without embargo termsThe student, Angela Hamann, accepted the attached license on 2016-11-29 at 11:36.The student, Angela Hamann, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-11-29 at 11:37.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-11-30 at 16:06.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10349 on 2017-02-28 at 14:54:3
Bounding the effects of food insecurity on children’s health outcomes
No full textPrevious research has estimated that food insecure children are more likely to suffer from a wide array of negative health outcomes than food secure children, leading many to claim that alleviating food insecurity would lead to better health outcomes. Identifying the causal impacts is problematic, however, given endogenous selection into food security status and potential mismeasurement of true food security status. Using recently developed nonparametric bounding methods and data from the 2001-2006 National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES), we assess what can be identified about the effects of food insecurity on child health outcomes in the presence of nonrandom selection and nonclassical measurement error. Under relatively weak monotonicity assumptions, we can identify that food security has a statistically significant positive impact on good general health and being a healthy weight. Our work suggests that previous research has more likely underestimated than overestimated the causal impacts of food insecurity on health.This is a manuscript of an article published as Gundersen, Craig, and Brent Kreider. "Bounding the effects of food insecurity on children’s health outcomes." Journal of health economics 28, no. 5 (2009): 971-983. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.06.012. Posted with permission.</p
THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM, AND FOOD INSUFFICIENCY
No full textThe ability of food stamps to ameliorate food insufficiency in the U.S. is estimated with self-selection models which incorporate the systematic differences between eligible food stamp participants and non-participants. The analysis is performed with a sample of eligible households from the 1992 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).Food Security and Poverty,
Identifying the Effects of SNAP (Food Stamps) on Child Health Outcomes When Participation Is Endogenous and Misreported
No full textThe literature assessing the efficacy of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, has long puzzled over positive associations between SNAP receipt and various undesirable health outcomes such as food insecurity. Assessing the causal impacts of SNAP, however, is hampered by two key identification problems: endogenous selection into participation and extensive systematic underreporting of participation status. Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), we extend partial identification bounding methods to account for these two identification problems in a single unifying framework. Specifically, we derive informative bounds on the average treatment effect of SNAP on child food insecurity, general poor health, obesity, and anemia across a range of different assumptions used to address the selection and classification error problems. In particular, to address the selection problem we apply relatively weak nonparametric assumptions on the latent outcomes, selected treatments, and observed covariates. To address the classification error problem, we formalize a new approach that uses auxiliary administrative data on the size of the SNAP caseload to restrict the magnitudes and patterns of SNAP reporting errors. Layering successively stronger assumptions, an objective of our analysis is to make transparent how the strength of the conclusions varies with the strength of the identifying assumptions. Under the weakest restrictions, there is substantial ambiguity: we cannot rule out the possibility that SNAP increases or decreases poor health. Under stronger but plausible assumptions used to address the selection and classification error problems, we find that commonly cited relationships between SNAP and poor health outcomes provide a misleading picture about the true impacts of the program. Our tightest bounds identify favorable impacts of SNAP on child health.This is a manuscript of an article published as Kreider, Brent, John V. Pepper, Craig Gundersen, and Dean Jolliffe. "Identifying the effects of SNAP (food stamps) on child health outcomes when participation is endogenous and misreported." Journal of the American Statistical Association 107, no. 499 (2012): 958-975. doi: 10.1080/01621459.2012.682828. Posted with permission.</p
Food Insecurity and Mental Disability : The Successes and Failures of Federal Assistance Programs.
No full textFood insecurity, the inability to access sufficient food to meet nutritional needs, affected nearly 17 million households in the United States in 2022. The immensity of this issue has led to a significant dedication of resources into the research of the mechanisms of food insecurity and the development of federal assistance programs aimed at reducing food insecurity. Numerous studies have found a clear association between disability and food insecurity, finding that people with mental disabilities have an increased risk in experiencing food insecurity. However, gaps remain in understanding how this experience impacts those with serious mental illnesses and intellectual disabilities, contributing to the continued disadvantages faced by these populations. Utilizing relevant literature, I first seek to examine the current state of food insecurity in the United States and the efficacy of federal nutrition assistance programs. Then, I investigate the relationship between food insecurity and disability, focusing on households with members with a serious mental illness or mental disability. Finally, I utilize these findings to propose and analyze potential policy solutions to establish better equity and accessibility among federal assistance programs
Two essays on food security in Zimbabwe
No full textThe issue of food security is still a critical problem for international development. There is still no single solution for this global concern therefore research must be able to narrow down the determinants in order to mitigate the harmful effects such as child malnutrition. This thesis will examine the causes and effect of household food security in the case of Zimbabwe. The first essay examines the determinants of food security, focusing on economic wealth and social networks. It was found that employment and asset ownership have a larger effect on decreasing the probability of household food security. The second essay examines the effect of food security and other determinants such as public infrastructure and household factors on child nutrition. It was found that household food security and dwelling type, as a proxy for income, had the most significant impacts on decreasing the probability of child malnutrition. These essays together show that improving income plays a central role in order to decrease household food insecurity and child malnutrition in Zimbabwe.Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf ([email protected]) on 2012-04-24T13:49:30Z
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