Table 2.
Regressions of Population Height on Postneonatal Mortality (PNM) and Other Variables
Variable | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PNM | −0.161 (0.007) | −0.100 (0.007) | −0.057 (0.009) | −0.057 (0.009) | −0.121 (0.012) | −0.048 (0.013) | −0.052 (0.014) | −0.044 (0.017) |
NNM | — | — | — | — | −0.029 (0.026) | −0.080 (0.028) | −0.069 (0.030) | −0.047 (0.035) |
Ln(GDP) | — | — | — | — | 0.993 (0.299) | 0.542 (0.517) | 0.149 (0.678) | 0.833 (0.809) |
Year of Birth | — | — | 0.054 (0.008) | — | — | — | 0.018 (0.018) | — |
Country Dummy Variables? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Year Dummy Variables? | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
R2 | .623 | .898 | .914 | .923 | .640 | .916 | .916 | .924 |
Sample Size | 316 | 316 | 316 | 316 | 316 | 316 | 316 | 316 |
Notes: Heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors are reported in parentheses.
Source: Authors’ calculations. GDP per capita is the chained real per capita GDP series from version 6.2 of the Penn World Table (Heston, Summers, and Aten 2006).