An Evaluation of the Indian Child Nutrition and Development Program
| dc.creator | Kandpal, Eeshani | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:54:04Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T04:45:23Z | |
| dc.description | The Indian Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) aims to improve the physical and psychological well-being of children younger than five. However, previous evaluations find that ICDS fails to significantly impact child stunting and that program placement is faulty. My results contradict the lack of a significant treatment effect, but are consistent with problematic program placement. Previous analyses of ICDS used probit to study placement, but the distribution of state-wise ICDS coverage is negatively skewed violating the normality assumption of probit. To address this, I use beta regression to study placement and compare results with probit analysis. In addition, using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) I find evidence of a significant, positive average and quantile treatment effects on stunting. Data are from the most recent Indian Family and Health Survey (NFHS-3). | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.49578 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/49578/files/Kandpal_2009.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/49578 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/554492 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/49578 | |
| dc.title | An Evaluation of the Indian Child Nutrition and Development Program | |
| dc.type | Text |