Analyzing perceived hunger across states in the US

Daniel Slottje and Hang K. Ryu ()
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Hang K. Ryu: Department of Economics, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea

Empirical Economics, 1999, vol. 24, issue 2, 323-329

Abstract: This paper focuses on the problem of analyzing how factors impact hunger across states when hunger is ill-defined. Hunger (which is a latent variable) is presumed to depend on macroeconomic, legislation, policy, and demographic variables. Based on the Bayesian method of a posterior odds ratios, we find that the high school graduation rate appears to be the single most important factor we identify which affects the perceived hunger measure.

Keywords: Quantifying; hunger (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I32 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-05-11
Note: received: December 1996/final version received: September 1998
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