TY - JOUR
T1 - Poverty, food insecurity, and nutritional outcomes in children and adults
AU - Bhattacharya, Jayanta
AU - Currie, Janet
AU - Haider, Steven
N1 - Funding Information:
Bhattacharya and Haider gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the USDA/Institute for Research on Poverty Small Grants Program. The authors thank Alison Jacknowitz for superb research assistance and are grateful for the helpful comments from the participants at the USDA Small Grants Workshop in Madison, Wisconsin; the USDA Small Grants Conference in Washington, DC; the Dartmouth Labor Seminar; and the University of Maryland Demography of Inequality Seminar. All opinions expressed herein are solely those of the authors.
PY - 2004/7
Y1 - 2004/7
N2 - Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we examine the relationship between nutritional status, poverty, and food insecurity for household members of various ages. Our most striking result is that, while poverty is predictive of poor nutrition among preschool children, food insecurity does not provide any additional predictive power for this age group. Among school age children, neither poverty nor food insecurity is associated with nutritional outcomes, while among adults and the elderly, both food insecurity and poverty are predictive. These results suggest that researchers should be cautious about assuming connections between food insecurity and nutritional outcomes, particularly among children.
AB - Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we examine the relationship between nutritional status, poverty, and food insecurity for household members of various ages. Our most striking result is that, while poverty is predictive of poor nutrition among preschool children, food insecurity does not provide any additional predictive power for this age group. Among school age children, neither poverty nor food insecurity is associated with nutritional outcomes, while among adults and the elderly, both food insecurity and poverty are predictive. These results suggest that researchers should be cautious about assuming connections between food insecurity and nutritional outcomes, particularly among children.
KW - Food insecurity
KW - I12
KW - I32
KW - Nutrition
KW - Poverty
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2003.12.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2003.12.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 15587700
AN - SCOPUS:4344654881
SN - 0167-6296
VL - 23
SP - 839
EP - 862
JO - Journal of Health Economics
JF - Journal of Health Economics
IS - 4
ER -