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SUBMITTER: Gregory CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7906471 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20210225 2
This paper makes several contributions to the literature regarding the measurement of food insecurity and implications for estimating factors that affect this outcome. First, we show that receipt of benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has a systematic effect on responses to questions in the 12-month food security module (FSM). We find that the probability of affirming more severe food hardships items, and the probability of being classified as having very low food ...[more]