Public Health Nutrition
Vilar-Compte, M., Sandoval-Olascoaga, S., Bernal-Stuart, A., Shimoga, S., Vargas-Bustamante, A., ,
2014-11-27
Article on the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on food security in Mexico and how it disproportionally affected vulnerable households. A generalized ordered logistic regression was estimated to assess the impact of the crisis on households’ food security status. An ordinary least squares and a quantile regression were estimated to evaluate the effect of the financial crisis on a continuous proxy measure of food security defined as the share of a household’s current income devoted to food expenditures. The results suggest that households that were more vulnerable before the financial crisis saw a worsened effect in terms of food insecurity with the crisis. Findings were consistent with both measures of food security – one based on self-reported experience and the other based on food spending.
- Economic
- Food Insecurity
- Other Crises
- Caribbean
- Central America
- Latin America
- Mexico
- Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
- Households
- Research
- Article
- Journal article
