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Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2013 May 28;97:10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.05.016. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.05.016

Table 3.

Regressions of HAZ at Round t on HAZ at Round t-1

	HAZ(5) regressed on HAZ(1)

	Ethiopia	India	Peru	Vietnam
Height for age z-score year 1	0.35^* [0.03]	0.40^* [0.03]	0.64^* [0.03]	0.70^* [0.02]
Age category 6-8 months	−0.12 [0.08]	−0.35^* [0.07]	−0.27^* [0.08]	−0.52^* [0.06]
Age category 9-11 months	−0.05 [0.09]	−0.13 [0.07]	−0.24^* [0.08]	−0.22^* [0.05]
Age category 15-17 months	0.10 [0.09]	0.09 [0.08]	0.13 [0.09]	0.20^* [0.07]
Constant	−0.92^* [0.07]	−1.01^* [0.05]	−0.62^* [0.06]	−0.46^* [0.04]

Observations	1,757	1,825	1,847	1,837
R-squared	0.29	0.35	0.48	0.60
p-value test of interactions^a jointly = 0	0.99	0.21	0.34	0.23

	HAZ(8) regressed on HAZ(5)

Height for age z-score year 2	0.70^* [0.03]	0.82^* [0.02]	0.80^* [0.02]	0.86^* [0.02]
Age category 48-58 months	0.12 [0.07]	0.13 [0.11]	0.07 [0.08]	0.09 [0.08]
Age category 64-68 months	0.03 [0.07]	0.05 [0.06]	−0.01 [0.06]	−0.01 [0.04]
Age category 69-75 months	−0.11 [0.25]	0.003 [0.09]	0.07 [0.07]	0.09 [0.10]
Constant	−0.22^* [0.05]	−0.12^* [0.05]	0.05 [0.04]	0.06 [0.03]

Observations	1,757	1,825	1,847	1,837
R-squared	0.53	0.65	0.70	0.74
p-value test of interactions ^a jointly = 0	0.18	0.88	0.91	0.58

Standard errors in brackets;

p<0.05

Regressions include interactions between age categories and HAZ in round t-1 (not displayed).