TY  - SER
AU  - Lee, Seungmin
AU  -  Barrett, Christopher B.
AU  -  Hoddinott, John F.
TI  - Food security dynamics in the United States, 2001–2017
SN  - 1467-8276
PB  - American Journal of Agricultural Economics
KW  -  Dynamics
KW  -  Food Security
KW  -  Well-being
KW  - Welfare
N2  - We study household food security dynamics in the United States from 2001 to 2017 using a new measure, the probability of food security (PFS), the estimated probability that a household's food expenditures equal or exceed the minimum cost of a healthful diet. We use PFS to analyze household-level and subpopulation-scale dynamics by investigating the conditional distribution of estimated food insecurity spells and the chronic and transient components of estimated food insecurity. We find that two-thirds of households experienced no estimated food insecurity during the 2001 to 2017 period and more than half of newly food insecure households regain food security within 2 years. Households headed by female, non-White, or less educated individuals disproportionately suffer persistent, chronic, and/or severe food insecurity
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajae.12433
ER  -