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Food Stamps and Food Insecurity

What Can Be Learned in the Presence of Nonclassical Measurement Error?

Craig Gundersen and Brent Kreider
Journal of Human Resources, March 2008, 43 (2) 352-382; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.43.2.352
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