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Table 5 Marginal effects of Diarrhea on children’s nutritional status (effect B) (from eq. (1))

From: Household water treatment and the nutritional status of primary-aged children in India: findings from the India human development survey

 

Marginal effect

Prob (n = 1(obese))

−0.006**

(0.003)

Prob (n = 2(overweight))

−0.008**

(0.004)

Prob (n = 3(normal))

−0.019*

(0.011)

Prob (n = 4(thin))

0.019*

(0.010)

Prob (n = 5(severely thin))

0.014*

(0.008)

  1. Notes: 1. The representative sample includes those OBC male children who have two hours of watching television, three meals per day, habits of washing hands after defecating, and live in families with two children, toilets, doing outdoor cooking in general, highest adult educational attainment equal to elementary school (5–12 education years), and levels of household income below the poverty line in Uttar Pradesh. 2. ** indicates p < 0.05; * indicates p < 0.1
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