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The problem
Intervention: Food transfers through India's National Food Security Act of 2013 (NFSA)
Who it was tested with: Children across eight Indian states; policy affected over 500 million people.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"Using individual panel data across eight states in India over five years, we find that increased transfers significantly reduced stunting." The study uses longitudinal panel data with plausibly exogenous variation from policy implementation, which constitutes a quasi-experimental design allowing causal inference.
The study is limited to eight states in India and may not represent all regions or contexts. The document does not provide specific details about effect sizes, comparison groups, or differential impacts by socioeconomic status.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
