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

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Table 14 Logit RE regression – Underweight, Wasting and Stunting

	Logit– Random Effects Regression
	Underweight		Wasting		Stunting
	Coef	Odds R	Coef	Odds R	Coef	Odds R
Treatment var
Trt	−0.604** (0.152)	0.547** (0.083)	−0.628** (0.187)	0.533** (0.100)	−0.219 (0.176)	0.803 (0.142)
Other controls?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	17,214		7783		10,309
lnσ_u	0.490		−0.701		−0.308
σ_u	1.278		0.704		0.857
ρ	0.332		0.131		0.183

Robust standard errors in parenthesis, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, + p < 0.1. Other controls include lagged WAZ/HAZ/WHZ, 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

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