JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Food Security Dynamics in the United States, 2001-2017

PERMANENT LINK(S)
Metadata
Show full item recordAuthor
Lee, Seungmin; Barrett, Christopher B.; Hoddinott, John F.
Abstract
This paper studies household food security dynamics in the United States from 2001 to
2017. We introduce a new measure, the probability of food security (PFS), the
estimated probability that a household’s food expenditures equal or exceed the
minimum cost of a healthful diet. We use PFS to analyze household-level as well as
subpopulation-scale dynamics by investigating both the conditional distribution of food
insecurity spells and the chronic and transient components of food insecurity over an
extended period. More than half of newly food insecure households resume food
security within two years. Households headed by female, non-White, or less educated
individuals disproportionately suffer persistent, chronic food insecurity.
Date Issued
2021-11Subject
Food Insecurity; Hunger; Measurement; PSID
Type
report