Table A1.

First stage results of HAZ

	HAZ
Instruments
Maternal Height	0.06	**
Education of the household head	0.55
Ratio of PRONOEI pre-schools over total pre-schools	−0.24
Child and family characteristics
Female	0.21	**
Child’s age	0.01
Mother tongue	−0.56	**
Maternal education	0.24	**
Mother’s age	0.00
Wealth Index	0.52	*
Place of residence (urban)	0.14	*
R-squared	0.26

^**p<0.01,

^*p<0.05,

⁺p<0.10