Income Volatility and Food Assistance in the United States
Income Volatility and Food Assistance in the United States

Author: Dean Jolliffe

Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0880993367

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The papers in this volume provide much needed focus and in depth coverage of the effect of income-volatility on the participation and design of food-assistance programs such as the Food Stamp Program and the National School Lunch Program.

Food Insufficiency and Income Volatility in U. S. Households
Food Insufficiency and Income Volatility in U. S. Households

Author: Molly Dahl

Publisher:

Published: 2012-06-20

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 9781457830259

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This study explores how the use of imputed earnings data to measure income in the Survey of Income and Program Participation affects the observed relationship between household income volatility and food insufficiency. The study finds that the inclusion of imputed earnings data when measuring income volatility substantially understates the association between large drops in household income and food insufficiency. After excluding observations with imputed earnings, large drops in income are associated with a 1.3 percentage point increase in the probability of food insufficiency, although the estimate is not statistically significant at conventional levels. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.

Food Spending Declined and Food Insecurity Increased for Middle-income and Low-income Households from 2000 to 2007
Food Spending Declined and Food Insecurity Increased for Middle-income and Low-income Households from 2000 to 2007

Author: Mark Nord

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1437924832

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From 2000-07, median spending on food by U.S. households declined by 12%, and by 6% relative to the Consumer Price Index for Food and Beverages. Over the same period, the national prevalence of very low food security increased by about one-third, from 3.1% of households in 2000 to 4.1% in 2007. The deterioration in food security was greatest in the second-lowest income quintile. These estimates are corroborated by corresponding declines in food expenditures by middle- and low-income households. The declines in food spending by middle- and low-income households were accompanied by increases in spending for housing and, in the two lowest income quintiles, by declines in income and total spending. Charts and tables.

Income Volatility in U.S. Households with Children
Income Volatility in U.S. Households with Children

Author: Pamela Aileen Morris

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13:

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In this paper, we sought to document household income volatility as experienced by children over time, as one understudied aspect of household economic circumstances that might contribute to observed socioeconomic differences in children's achievement. Our analysis of six panels of the nationally representative Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) across a 25-year period reveal that income volatility may be an additional factor contributing to the gap between the achievement of rich and poor children: we find that households with children at the 10th percentile of income have experienced increasing volatility across the last 25 years while their affluent peers at the 90th percentile have experienced declining income volatility. Our sensitivity analyses show that these findings are robust to a number of differing analytic approaches and are not due to the changing racial/ethnic composition of lowincome households over this same time period.