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The problem
Intervention: Remittance income received by households from migrant workers
Who it was tested with: Children below five years of age in Nepal.
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"The paper examines the effect of remittance on the nutritional scores – HAZ, WAZ, and WHZ – as well as on the stunting, underweight, and wasting of children below five years of age by using the data from NLSS III 2010/11. The Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimates suggest that there is a positive association of migrant remittance on stunting and underweight of children." The study uses observational household survey data with regression analysis to estimate associations between remittance income and multiple nutrition outcomes.
Cross-sectional design cannot establish causation; no control for potential confounders; no information on effect sizes or statistical significance provided; unclear whether households with remittances differ systematically in other ways that affect child nutrition.
Across countries and designs
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