A matching decomposition of the rural–urban difference in malnutrition in Malawi

Health Economics Review

Table 1 Percentage of under-five children who are malnourished

Notes: own computations from MICS data. Malnutrition is classified as follows; mild (z-score ≤ −1), moderate (z-score ≤ −2), and severe malnutrition (z-score ≤ −3). We test the hypothesis that the mean of a malnutrition indicator in urban areas is greater than (that is less negative) that of rural areas. The significance asterisks are defined as: *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01.

ISSN: 2191-1991