Replication Data for: Intergenerational Nutrition Benefits of India’s National School Feeding Program

National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) is a national, state, and district representative sample of 601,509 households with a response rate of 97.6%. In all households, women age 15-49 are eligible to participate. The study focuses on a sample of over 200,000 women with a mean age of 26.8 years who had a living child in the 5 years preceding the survey (N=196386, 48% female, 52% male). The exposure variable was obtained from the National Sample Survey-Consumer Expenditure(NSS-CES) rounds 50 (1993/94), 55 (1999/00), 61 (2004/05), and 69 (2011/12). The NSS-CES cross-sectional surveys are representative at the national and state levels. The NSS-CES survey over 100,000 households in each round and provide information on demographic characteristics of all household members. The study used data on free meals obtained at schools, among girls aged 6-10 years, to calculate the exposure to the Mid-day Meal (MDM) program by state, socioeconomic status (SES), and birth-year. The India Human Development Survey (IHDS) is a panel survey of 42,152 households. It provided data on school meals and education and the height of direct beneficiaries.全国家庭健康调查第四轮（National Family Health Survey, NFHS-4）是一项采用全国、省级及区级代表性抽样设计的调查，共纳入601509户家庭，应答率达97.6%。所有家庭中，年龄在15至49岁之间的女性均符合参与条件。本研究聚焦于其中的子样本：共20余万名女性，平均年龄26.8岁，且在调查前5年内育有存活子女；该子样本有效量为N=196386，其生育的存活子女性别占比为女性48%、男性52%。 本研究的暴露变量数据来源于第50轮（1993/1994年）、第55轮（1999/2000年）、第61轮（2004/2005年）及第69轮（2011/2012年）的全国抽样调查-消费支出调查（National Sample Survey-Consumer Expenditure, NSS-CES）。NSS-CES为横断面调查，其样本可代表全国及省级层面的人群；每轮调查均覆盖超10万户家庭，并可提供所有家庭成员的人口统计学特征信息。 本研究利用6至10岁女童在校免费就餐数据，按省级行政区、社会经济地位（socioeconomic status, SES）及出生年份计算研究对象接触学校午餐计划（Mid-day Meal, MDM）的情况。印度人类发展调查（India Human Development Survey, IHDS）是一项覆盖42152户家庭的追踪调查，其提供了学校供餐、教育情况以及直接受益人群身高相关数据。