Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45154 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2008/53
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Reducing child malnutrition is a key goal of most developing countries. To combat child malnutrition with the right set of interventions, policymakers need to have a better understanding of its economic, social and policy determinants. While there is a large literature that investigates the determinants of child malnutrition, it focuses almost exclusively on mean effects of these determinants. However, socioeconomic background variables and policy interventions may affect child nutrition differently at different points of the conditional nutritional distribution.
Subjects: 
child health
child nutrition
malnutrition
child weight
child height
quantile regression
Sri Lanka
JEL: 
D12
D13
I12
O12
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-101-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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