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Table 3

Balance on correlates of child health: Coefficients on lower predicting observable characteristics, with household fixed effects

Dependent Variable	NFHS-3 (2005–2006)	NFHS-4 (2015–2016)
Mother's Height (in cm)	0.382	−0.076
	(0.396)	(0.299)
Mother's Age at Marriage	−0.109	−0.095
	(0.167)	(0.172)
Rural Home Before Marriage	−0.013	—^a
	(0.021)
Mother's Education	0.118^*	0.150^**
	(0.050)	(0.041)
Father's Education	0.201	−0.248
	(0.219)	(0.169)
Father's Height (in cm)	0.170	0.199
	(0.639)	(0.360)
Home Birth	−0.092^**	−0.060^**
	(0.025)	(0.019)
C-section	0.026	0.028
	(0.018)	(0.019)

Dependent Variable	NFHS-3 (2005–2006)	NFHS-4 (2015–2016)
Mother's Height (in cm)	0.382	−0.076
	(0.396)	(0.299)
Mother's Age at Marriage	−0.109	−0.095
	(0.167)	(0.172)
Rural Home Before Marriage	−0.013	—^a
	(0.021)
Mother's Education	0.118^*	0.150^**
	(0.050)	(0.041)
Father's Education	0.201	−0.248
	(0.219)	(0.169)
Father's Height (in cm)	0.170	0.199
	(0.639)	(0.360)
Home Birth	−0.092^**	−0.060^**
	(0.025)	(0.019)
C-section	0.026	0.028
	(0.018)	(0.019)

Notes: Each coefficient estimate and standard error corresponds to $\hat{β}$ in a separate regression estimate of $y_{i h v} = β l o w e r_{i h v} + α_{h v} + ϵ_{i h v},$ where y is the dependent variable listed in the table, lower is an indicator for being a child of the lower-ranking mother, and $α$ represents household (h) fixed effects. Standard errors, clustered by village (v), are shown in parentheses. Being a lower-ranking daughter-in-law is the identifying variation of the main results. The samples correspond to the main height results shown in Figure 3, except when some variables are missing for some observations.

^aThis question was not asked in the NFHS-4.

^*p < .05; ^**p < .01

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