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Table 4 Height-for-age zscore vs access to the midday meals program- IV-RE and GLS-RE results

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

 

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Full sample

Girls

Boys

Low BW

Normal/High BW

Panel A: IV-RE regressions

 Treatment var. (Trt)

0.047** (0.012)

0.052** (0.016)

0.039* (0.018)

0.024+ (0.014)

0.078** (0.023)

 Other controls?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Panel B: GLS-RE regressions

 Treatment var. (Trt)

0.053** (0.014)

0.059** (0.017)

0.048* (0.021)

0.024+ (0.014)

0.094** (0.026)

 Other controls?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Observations

10,309

5285

5024

4847

5462

  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 using the full sample, girls, boys, low birthweight and normal/high birthweight 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