Food insecurity and hunger have traditionally been measured by aggregate food supplies or by variables correlated with food insecurity. Because these measures often poorly reflect individuals’ true deprivation, economists have turned to surveys with direct questions about food insecurity....

The literature assessing the efficacy of the Food Stamp Program, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has long puzzled over positive associations between food stamp receipt and various undesirable health outcomes such as food insecurity. Assessing the impact of food...

Policymakers have been puzzled to observe that food stamp households appear more likely tobe food insecure than observationally similar eligible nonparticipating households. We reexamine this issueallowing for nonclassical reporting errors in food stamp participation and food insecurity....