Slottje, Daniel J.; Ryu, Hang K. - In: Empirical Economics 24 (1999) 2, pp. 323-329
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,...