Food Stamps and Food Insecurity
重新审视食品券家庭比未参与家庭更可能食品不安全的悖论，引入非参数框架处理参与和结果变量的非经典测量误差，发现该悖论依赖于文献不支持的数据假设。
Abstract 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.