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100			_aHimaz, Rozana _91
245			_aWelfare Grants and Their Impact on Child Health _bThe Case of Sri Lanka
520			_aThis paper asks whether an exogenous increase in income in the context of a poverty alleviation program has an impact on child anthropometric outcomes. The study looks at the Samurdhi Program in Sri Lanka, and uses household data for 1999/2000. Using propensity score matching to account for selectivity bias, the paper finds that Samurdhi improves the height-for-age z-score of a child from a grant-receiving family by roughly 0.40 standard deviations with the impact driven mainly by children between six, and 36 months of age, compared to if they did not receive the grant. It also improves weight-for-height z-scores by around 0.45 standard deviations of children aged 36–60 months. These results are important for Sri Lanka, where child nutrition is a cause for concern.
650			_aWelfare programs _91
650			_aChild health _91
650			_aSouth Asia _91
650			_aSri Lanka _91
650			_aSamurdhi _91
650			_aMatching methods _91
773			_aWorld Development _d Vol. 36, No. 10, 2008 _h1843–1857
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952			_40 _eInter Library Loan _00 _bLIPS _10 _oElectronic media _d2018-01-30 _8HH _70 _cE _uftp://ftp.ips.lk/ebooks/Pamphlets/Health/WelfareGrantsImpactChildHealthHimaz2008.pdf _yEM _aLIPS