Table 5.
Tobit Analysis of the Impact of Adult Mortality on Marriage, With Controls for Respondents’ Education and Village Fixed Effects
| Variable | Age at First Marriage |
Interval Between First Sex and Marriage |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
| District Adult Mortality in Childhood | –0.0053† (1.79) |
–0.015** (2.87) |
–0.0293** (5.89) |
–0.0668** (7.41) |
| Highest Education Attained (ref. = no education) | ||||
| Primary education | 0.5821** (6.50) |
0.2112 (1.28) |
–0.1587 (1.02) |
–0.9118** (3.17) |
| Secondary education | 3.5993** (26.63) |
3.6652** (14.82) |
3.2789** (14.22) |
–0.0199 (0.05) |
| Higher education | 6.9723** (14.06) |
6.778** (6.41) |
6.2455** (7.64) |
–2.2777 (1.28) |
| Primary education × Adult mortality | 0.0128** (2.60) |
0.0303** (3.55) |
||
| Secondary education × Adult mortality | 0.001 (0.17) |
0.0955** (8.79) |
||
| Higher education × Adult mortality | 0.0075 (0.24) |
0.2669** (5.33) |
||
| Number of Siblings | 0.0074 (0.47) |
0.0068 (0.43) |
–0.0129 (0.47) |
–0.0064 (0.24) |
| Birth Order | –0.0196 (1.16) |
–0.019 (1.12) |
–0.0266 (0.90) |
–0.0273 (0.93) |
| Proportion of Deceased Infant/Child Siblings | –0.3614* (2.20) |
–0.3556* (2.17) |
–0.6674* (2.34) |
–0.6588* (2.32) |
| Proportion of Deceased Adult Siblings | –0.5779 (1.64) |
–0.5889† (1.67) |
–0.7957 (1.30) |
–0.6712 (1.10) |
| Childhood Place of Residence Is a Town | –0.2635 (1.34) |
–0.2578 (1.32) |
–0.3865 (1.17) |
–0.3046 (0.92) |
| Childhood Place of Residence Is a Countryside | –0.0523 (0.29) |
–0.0524 (0.29) |
–0.1332 (0.43) |
–0.0617 (0.20) |
| Number of Observations | 9,161 | 8,527 | 8,527 | 8,527 |
| Uncensored Observations | 7,723 | 7,106 | 7,106 | 7,106 |
| Censored Observations | 1,438 | 1,421 | 1,421 | 1,421 |
Notes: Absolute t statistics are in parentheses. Models include a constant term and dummy variables for village and women’s age (birth year), ethnicity, and religion.
†
p < .10;
*
p < .05;
**
p < .01