Public Health Nutrition | |
The impact of the 2008 financial crisis on food security and food expenditures in Mexico: a disproportionate effect on the vulnerable | |
Mireya Vilar-Compte1  Arturo Vargas-Bustamante1  Sandhya Shimoga1  Ana Bernal-Stuart1  Sebastian Sandoval-Olascoaga1  | |
关键词: Food insecurity; Financial crisis; Mexico; | |
DOI : 10.1017/S1368980014002493 | |
学科分类:卫生学 | |
来源: Cambridge University Press | |
【 摘 要 】
AbstractObjectiveThe present paper investigated the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on food security in Mexico and how it disproportionally affected vulnerable households.DesignA 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.SettingBoth analyses were performed using pooled cross-sectional data from the Mexican National Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2008 and 2010.SubjectsThe analytical sample included 29 468 households in 2008 and 27 654 in 2010. ResultsThe generalized ordered logistic model showed that the financial crisis significantly (P
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