What Can Be Learned in the Presence of Nonclassical Measurement Error?
Year: 2006 Research Center: Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison Investigator: Gundersen, Craig, and Brent Kreider Institution: Iowa State University Project Contact: Craig Gundersen Department of Human Development and Family Studies Iowa State University 74 LeBaron Hall Ames, IA 50011 Phone: 515-294-6319 Email: cggunder@iastate.edu Summary: The central goal of the Food Stamp Program is to alleviate food insecurity in the United States. Given this goal, policymakers have been puzzled to observe that food stamp households with children are more likely to be food insecure than similar nonparticipating eligible households. In 2003, food stamp participants had food insecurity rates of 52.3 percent while eligible nonparticipants had food insecurity rates of 34.4 percent, a gap of 17.8 percentage points. For a more severe measure of food insecurity, food insecurity with hunger, the gap between participants and eligible nonparticipants was 6.4 percentage points.
