UTILIZATION OF ICDS SERVICES AND THEIR IMPACT ON CHILD HEALTH OUTCOMES - EVIDENCE FROM THREE EAST INDIAN STATES

Nitya Mittal and J V Meenakshi
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Nitya Mittal and J V Meenakshi: Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India
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No 247, Working papers from Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics

Abstract: The study analyses a rural household’s decision to participate in a public pre-school intervention called the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), and evaluates its impact on anthropometric outcomes of children in three Indian states, namely Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa in the year 2012. Using multinomial logistic models, we find that access costs, defined both in physical (distance) and social (caste) terms, are the main drivers of ICDS utilization. We also estimate the impact of utilization of one or more of the multiple services offered by the ICDS on anthropometric outcomes, by using matching methods. Our results suggest that conditional on utilization, compared to singleton services, utilization of multiple services translates into larger increase in weight-for-age z-scores. Participation in all the services of the ICDS program leads to a 13 percentage points lower prevalence of underweight children. Given the evidence that relatively greater emphasis is placed on the supplementary nutrition component of the program, these results are not surprising.

Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2015-10
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