TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bhattacharya,Jayanta
AU  - Haider,Steven
AU  - Currie,Janet
TI  - Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9003
PY  - 2002
Y2  - June 2002
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9003
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9003.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Steven J. Haider
Department of Economics
Michigan State University
101 Marshall Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Tel: 517/355-1860
Fax: 517/432-1068
E-Mail: haider@msu.edu

Janet Currie
Princeton University
316 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609-258-7393
Fax: 609-258-5974
E-Mail: jcurrie@princeton.edu
AB  - We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various dietary and physiologic outcomes. Our findings suggest that the correlations vary tremendously by age. We find that the food insecurity questions are correlated with the dietary outcomes of older household members, but that they are not consistently related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes.
ER  -