Decomposing the Household Food Insecurity Gap for Children of US-Born and Foreign-Born Hispanics: Evidence from 1998 to 2011
Decomposing the Household Food Insecurity Gap for Children of US-Born and Foreign-Born Hispanics: Evidence from 1998 to 2011
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DOI：
10.1007/s10903-017-0561-0
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发表时间：
2017-10-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Parsons, Sarah
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作者：
Arteaga, Irma;Potochnick, Stephanie;Parsons, Sarah
利用幼儿纵向研究- k、多变量分析、州固定效应和回归分解，我们研究了1998年至2011年间西班牙裔幼儿园儿童食物不安全的变化，这是一个快速移民和政治/社会经济变化的时期。在此期间，在美国出生的母亲和在外国出生的母亲的孩子之间的家庭食品不安全差距增加了近7个百分点。造成出生差距的因素——孩子、家庭和国家——随着时间的推移而不同。在这两个时期，移民家庭中较低的家庭资源，即禀赋效应，促成了这一差距；这是2011年差距的主要组成部分，但在1998年只有一个组成部分。1998年，国家效应的异质性与出生粮食不安全差距呈正相关。这意味着，即使在控制了孩子和家庭特征之后，在同一州，外国出生母亲的孩子比美国出生母亲的孩子面临更大的家庭食品不安全感。2011年，几乎一半的差距仍然无法解释。这种无法解释的部分可能是由大衰退的不同影响、日益增长的反移民情绪和/或2011年非法移民的相对较大份额造成的。
Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-K, multivariate analysis, state fixed effects, and regression decomposition, we examine changes in food insecurity for Hispanic kindergarteners between 1998 and 2011, a time period of rapid immigration and political/socio-economic changes. During this time the household food insecurity gap between children of U.S.-born and foreign-born mothers increased by almost 7 percentage points. The factors-child, family, and state-that contributed to the nativity gap differed over time. In both periods, lower familial resources among immigrant families, i.e. endowment effects, contributed to the gap; this was the main component of the gap in 2011 but only one component in 1998. In 1998, heterogeneity in state effects was positively associated with the nativity food insecurity gap. This means that children of foreign-born mothers experience higher household food insecurity than do children of U.S.-born mothers in the same state, even after controlling for child and family characteristics. In 2011, almost half of the gap remained unexplained. This unexplained portion could be driven by differential effects of the Great Recession, growing anti-immigrant sentiment, and/or the relatively large share of unauthorized immigrants in 2011.