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Table 5 Weight-for-height/length 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)

0.014 (0.018)

0.033 (0.025)

0.001 (0.026)

0.014 (0.021)

−0.021 (0.036)

 Other controls?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Panel B: GLS-RE regressions

 Treatment var. (Trt)

−0.006 (0.019)

− 0.001 (0.022)

− 0.016 (0.031)

0.013 (0.020)

− 0.042 (0.038)

 Other controls?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Observations

7783

3943

3840

3748

4035

  1. Notes: Robust standard errors in parenthesis, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, + p < 0.1
  2. The dependent variable is weight-for-height 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