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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: Four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India

Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the effectiveness of the use of iron and iodine fortified salt in school lunches to reduce anemia among school children. After four years of treatment, treated children, on average, have higher hemoglobin levels and a lower likelihood of anemia relative to the control group. Interestingly, the intervention did not have an impact on cognitive and educational outcomes.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 282

Classification
Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Health and Economic Development
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Subject
Child health
double-fortified salt
India
school feeding

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
von Grafenstein, Liza
Kumar, Abhijeet
Kumar, Santosh
Vollmer, Sebastian
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG)
(where)
Göttingen
(when)
2021

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • von Grafenstein, Liza
  • Kumar, Abhijeet
  • Kumar, Santosh
  • Vollmer, Sebastian
  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG)

Time of origin

  • 2021

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