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Table 11 Height-for-age zscore vs access to the midday meals program: by birth-year cohort

From: Midday meals as an early childhood nutrition intervention: evidence from plantation communities in Sri Lanka

 

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Full sample

2007–2009

2010–2012

2013–2015

Panel A: IV-RE regressions

 Treatment var. (Trt)

0.047** (0.012)

0.046* (0.021)

0.044** (0.014)

−0.008 (0.051)

 Other controls?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Panel B: GLS-RE regressions

 Treatment var. (Trt)

0.053** (0.014)

0.050** (0.019)

0.058** (0.017)

−0.024 (0.045)

 Other controls?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Observations

10,309

1878

7562

869

  1. Notes: Robust standard errors in parenthesis, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, + p < 0.1
  2. The dependent variable is height-for-age zscore. Estimated treatment effects from regressions using the full sample, 2007–2009, 2010–2012 and 2013–2015 birth cohorts presented. The treatment variable (Trt) is a dummy equal to one if the child had access to the midday meals program. Panel A provides results for the IV-Random Effects model and Panel B provides results for GLS-Random Effects Model. Other controls include child age, age squared, gender, zscore of first weight, zscore of birthweight, zscore of first height, pcare, ethnicity, CDC status and birth-year fixed effects either as direct controls or instruments