Analyzing Perceived Hunger Across States in the Us

This paper focuses on the problem of analyzing how factors impact hunger across states when hunger is ill-defined. Hunger (which is a latent variable) is presumed to depend on macroeconomic, legislation, policy, and demographic variables. Based on the Bayesian method of a posterior odds ratios, we find that the high school graduation rate appears to be the single most important factor we identify which affects the perceived hunger measure

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Ryu, Hang K. ; Slottje, Daniel J.
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Schätzung \| Estimation \| Unterernährung \| Undernutrition
Description of contents:	Abstract [papers.ssrn.com]

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Empirical Economics, Vol. 24, No. 2, May 1999 Volltext nicht verfügbar
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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