Table 5.

Estimates of Measures of Childhood Health on Health Outcomes (Robust standard errors in parenthesis below estimated coefficients)

	Men			Women
	Zhejiang	Gansu	difference	Zhejiang	Gansu	difference
	Poor adult health
“Excellent” or “V good” child health	-0.000 (0.037)	-0.070 (0.052)	-0.064 (0.062)	-0.133*** (0.039)	-0.098** (0.047)	0.035 (0.060)
height (cm)	0.001 (0.003)	-0.005 (0.004)	-0.006 (0.005)	-0.004 (0.003)	0.003 (0.005)	0.008 (0.006)
N	468	409		481	387
	ADLs
“Excellent” or “V good” child health	0.012 (0.025)	0.013 (0.071)	0.008 (0.080)	-0.025 (0.040)	-0.285** (0.117)	-0.273** (0.122)
height (cm)	-0.006 (0.005)	-0.005 (0.009)	-0.003 (0.011)	0.001 (0.003)	-0.002 (0.009)	-0.013 (0.010)
N	466	405		480	383
	IADLs
“Excellent” or “V good” child health	0.018 (0.048)	0.016 (0.123)	0.036 (0.133)	0.087 (0.070)	-0.323 (0.209)	-0.433* (0.222)
height (cm)	-0.014*** (0.005)	-0.020 (0.012)	-0.019 (0.014)	-0.008* (0.004)	- 0.034*** (0.011)	-0.049*** (0.015)
N	448	362		452	336
	Not very likely or almost impossible to survive to age 75a
“Excellent” or “V good” child health	-0.004 (0.031)	-0.064 (0.068)	-0.062 (0.073)	0.017 (0.044)	-0.211*** (0.058)	-0.229*** (0.073)
height (cm)	-0.001 (0.003)	-0.005 (0.006)	-0.003 (0.007)	0.002 (0.003)	-0.001 (0.006)	-0.004 (0.007)
N	319	264		338	258

^aFor respondents less than age 65.

^***Is statistically significant at one percent level

^**is statistically significant at five percent level:

^*is statistically significant at ten percent level. Community fixed effects are included.