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strong geographical clustering among the districts of India. Throughout most of Southern India, children are provided with … rural parts of India. Looking at average weight, as well as the proportion of children that suffer from underweight and … nutrition at the district level. We identify the geographical areas, where children are under severe risk of undernutrition …
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This paper explores the dimensions of child undernutrition in India, and examines the effectiveness of the Integrated … Child Development Services (ICDS) program in addressing it. The paper finds that although levels of undernutrition in India … multidimensional causes of malnutrition in India. However, there are several mismatches between the program's design and its actual …
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Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large … feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this puzzle, the authors assess the program's placement and its outcomes using … nearly half of India's population - have the lowest program coverage and the lowest budgetary allocations from the central …
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This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government health workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In a controlled experiment covering 145 child day-care centers, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous...
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wealth based inequality in child malnutrition (Wealth-Based-Concentration Index) for Indian children. The framework by A …
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