The Differential Incidence and Severity of Food Insecurity by Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups over the Great Recession in the United States

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (), Hugo Jales, Judith Liu and Norbert L. Wilson

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, vol. 108, 379-83

Abstract: We document the differences in food insecurity incidence and severity by race/ethnicity and immigrant status over the Great Recession. We show that the disadvantaged groups with a higher incidence of food insecurity do not necessarily have a higher severity of food insecurity, which underscores the importance of examining both the extensive and intensive margins of food insecurity. Our decomposition analysis indicates that the contribution of compositional and structural factors to the observed differences in exposure to food insecurity is heterogeneous across these groups and over the Great Recession. Finally, SNAP does not seem to fundamentally change the patterns documented.

JEL-codes: E32 I12 I18 I38 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
Note: DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20181106
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