Neighborhoods and Food Insecurity in Households with Young Children
A Disadvantage Paradox
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2245159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Justin T Denney (0000-0003-0246-4004, Washington State University, corresponding author), Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, Rachel Kimbro (0000-0001-6052-3864, Rice University), Gene Sharp (0000-0001-7458-7383, University at Buffalo, State University of New York), Gregory Sharp |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/socpro/spw054 |
| OpenAlex | W2678924237 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 61 |
In the United States, more than 1 in 5 households with children are unable to access and provide adequate food for a healthy, active lifestyle. We argue that the contribution of local context for food insecurity risk has largely been overlooked in favor of focusing on individual family characteristics, and that this is problematic given that mitigating food insecurity may be a communal process. We examine the relevance of neighborhood contributors to food insecurity among children, utilizing geocoded and nationally-representative data from the ECLS-K: 2010-2011 kindergarten cohort. We find little evidence that neighborhood socioeconomic, food retail, or social services characteristics directly impact food insecurity risk. However, our results reveal that family and neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics combine to impact food insecurity in ways consistent with a disadvantage paradox. As neighborhood concentrated disadvantage increases, higher-SES families' risk of food insecurity increases, but lower-SES families' risk decreases. This paradox is not explained by a higher concentration of social service organizations in more disadvantaged neighborhoods, and we theorize that impoverished families with children may share information and resources in disadvantaged communities to avoid food insecurity.
Agriculture · Context (archaeology) · Demographic economics · Disadvantage · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Food insecurity · Food security · Geography · Political science · Population · Poverty · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |