Adolescent food insecurity and risky behaviors and mental health during the transition to adulthood

American teens make risk and reward calculations under conditions of scarcity, which psychologists recognize as an environment that distorts cognitive abilities. Most of the research on adolescent food insecurity looks at contemporaneous associations with data from a point in time, sometimes on non-representative samples and without controlling for poverty. In this study, we explore how exposure to food insecurity during adolescence might change...