Bounding the effects of food insecurity on children’s health outcomes

dc.contributor.author Gundersen, Craig
dc.contributor.author Kreider, Brent
dc.contributor.department Department of Economics (LAS)
dc.date 2018-09-09T04:32:08.000
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-30T02:08:42Z
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dc.date.copyright Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2009
dc.date.issued 2009-09-01
dc.description.abstract <p>Previous 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.</p>
dc.description.comments <p>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." <em>Journal of health economics</em> 28, no. 5 (2009): 971-983. doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.06.012" target="_blank" title="Persistent link using digital object identifier">10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.06.012</a>. Posted with permission.</p>
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dc.source.uri 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.06.012
dc.subject.disciplines Behavioral Economics
dc.subject.disciplines Econometrics
dc.subject.disciplines Food Security
dc.subject.disciplines Health Economics
dc.subject.disciplines Health Policy
dc.subject.keywords food insecurity
dc.subject.keywords health outcomes
dc.subject.keywords nonclassical measurement error
dc.subject.keywords nonparametric bounds
dc.subject.keywords average treatment effect
dc.title Bounding the effects of food insecurity on children’s health outcomes
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