The Determinants of Child Weight and Height in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach

Harsha Aturupane, Anil Deolalikar () and Dileni Gunewardena

No RP2008-53, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

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.

Keywords: Children; Equality and inequality; Malnutrition; Government policy (Poor) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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