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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Dev Econ. 2009 Nov 1;90(2):209–230. doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.12.001

Table 5.

Simulation Results for Parental Behaviors in Response to Low Birthweights

Sample size: 30001
(1) Low birthweight2 (S.E.)4 (2) Normal birthweight3 (S.E.)4 Parental response (1)–(2) (S.E.)4
Expected working months up to year 1 2.251 (0.081) 2.641 (0.083) −0.390 (0.034)
up to year 2 5.901 (0.183) 6.634 (0.172) −0.733 (0.082)
#of month w/preventive care5 up to year 1 1.507 (0.076) 1.315 (0.062) 0.192 (0.056)
up to year 2 1.912 (0.096) 1.651 (0.082) 0.261 (0.072)
Duration of breast-feeding (months)6 Exclusive 0.684 (0.056) 0.725 (0.044) −0.041 (0.054)
Any 15.721 (0.252) 15.116 (0.208) 0.605 (0.173)
Caloric intake (calorie/kg)7 At end of year 1 54.412 (3.361) 53.128 (3.081) 1.284 (0.456)
At end of year 2 70.873 (3.342) 69.642 (3.135) 1.231 (0.488)

Note:

1

The sample used in these simulation is comprised of 3000 replicates of a typical mother-child pair whose exogenous characteristics are median values of the estimation sample;

2

The birth weight is set to be 2.0 kg and birth length is set to be 34.0cm;

3

The birth weight is set to be 3.3 kg and birth length is set to be 51.0cm;

4

Standard errors are obtained after bootstrapping using 1000 draws of parameters using estimated parameter vector and covariance matrix;

5

Expected preventive visits within first year (6 bi-monthly surveys) and first two years (12 bimonthly surveys) respectively;

6

Conditional on having initiated breast-feeding at the first follow-up survey;

7

Caloric contents from breast milk are not included.