India’s Struggle Against Malnutrition—Is the ICDS Program the Answer?

Monica Jain

World Development, 2015, vol. 67, issue C, 72-89

Abstract: Almost half of India’s children are stunted, endangering their life and human capital formation significantly. India’s only national program for combating widespread child malnutrition is Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). Using DHS data from 2005 to 2006 on child-level participation in ICDS, I assess the impact of its flagship supplementary nutrition program on children’s physical growth. Using matching and difference-in-difference estimators, I find that girls 0–2years old receiving supplementary feeding intensely are at least 1cm (0.4 z-score) taller than those not receiving it in rural India. The estimates are similar for boys aged 0–2 but less robust.

Keywords: child malnutrition; child development program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.006

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