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Published in final edited form as: Econ Dev Cult Change. 2019 Jul;67(4):725–755. doi: 10.1086/698852

TABLE 5.

HOUSEHOLD PRACTICE OF UNTOUCHABILITY IS POSITIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH KNOWING DOCTOR

	Dependent Variable: Knows Doctor among Relatives/Caste/Community
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Household practices untouchability	.0172^*	.0163^*	.0231^***	.0250^***
	(.0101)	(.00977)	(.00876)	(.00907)
ln(consumption)³		✓	✓	✓
Own caste group × religion		✓	✓	✓
State fixed effects			✓	✓
n (rural households)	27,261	27,261	27,261	22,800
Sample	Full	Full	Full	Hindu

Note. The dependent variable is an indicator for the household respondent answering yes to “Do you or any members of your household have personal acquaintance [with a doctor] among your relatives/caste/community?”; the mean of this variable is 0.167. Untouchability is version B: reported or kitchen. Standard errors, clustered by village, are in parentheses.

p < .10.

^***

p < .01.