Exploring the dynamics of racial food security gaps in the United States

Household-level food insecurity is one of the largest public health concerns facing millions of people in the United States today. Although recent work has highlighted gaps in food security rates between minority and non-Hispanic white households, little is known about how these households evolve th...

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Published in:Review of economics of the household 2020-06, Vol.18 (2), p.387-412
Main Authors: McDonough, Ian K., Roy, Manan, Roychowdhury, Punarjit
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Childhood
Children
Division of labor
Economic analysis
Economics
Economics and Finance
Food security
Health problems
Healthy food
Hispanic Americans
Households
Job insecurity
Kindergarten
Labor Economics
Microeconomics
Mobility
Population Economics
Public health
Social Sciences
Target markets
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Summary:Household-level food insecurity is one of the largest public health concerns facing millions of people in the United States today. Although recent work has highlighted gaps in food security rates between minority and non-Hispanic white households, little is known about how these households evolve through the overall distribution of food security over time. As such, we employ nonparametric estimators of distributional mobility to household-level data on food security from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Kindergarten Class of 1998–1999 study. Results suggest that Hispanic and non-Hispanic white households with children are equally mobile in the long run whereas non-Hispanic black households with children tend to be less upwardly mobile and more downwardly mobile in food security status over time.
ISSN:1569-5239
1573-7152
DOI:10.1007/s11150-019-09456-z