Table 4.

Association among economic conditions and births, infant deaths, and the infant mortality rate

	Independent variable
	Residual In(crop yield)		In(income)		Employment index
	Current year	Previous year	Current year	Previous year	Current year	Previous year
Dependent variable
In(infant deaths)	−0.0784 (0.0833)	0.0619 (0.0640)	0.2043 (0.2442)	0.1720 (0.2127)	0.0025 (0.0020)	0.0001 (0.0025)
In(births)	−0.0413 (0.0447)	0.0321 (0.0362)	0.0805 (0.1538)	0.1111 (0.1242)	0.0002 (0.0017)	−0.0001 (0.0019)
Infant mortality rate	−0.0014 (0.0028)	0.0024 (0.0033)	0.0105 (0.0089)	0.0070 (0.0090)	0.0001 (0.0001)	0.0000 (0.0001)

Ordinary least-squares estimates are shown in each pair of cells, with standard errors clustered at the region level reported below in parentheses. Each cell corresponds to a separate regression that includes region and year fixed effects and region-specific linear time trends, with independent variables in columns and dependent variables in rows. *, P < 0.10; **, P < 0.05; and ***, P < 0.01.