PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Craig Gundersen
AU  - Brent Kreider
TI  - Food Stamps and Food Insecurity
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.43.2.352
DP  - 2008 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 352--382
VI  - 43
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/43/2/352.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/43/2/352.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2008 Mar 31; 43
AB  - Policymakers have been puzzled to observe that food stamp households appear more likely to be food insecure than observationally similar eligible nonparticipating households. We reexamine this issue allowing for nonclassical reporting errors in food stamp participation and food insecurity. Extending the literature on partially identified parameters, we introduce a nonparametric framework that makes transparent what can be known about conditional probabilities when a binary outcome and conditioning variable are both subject to nonclassical measurement error. We find that the food insecurity paradox hinges on assumptions about the data that are not supported by the previous food stamp participation literature.