Table 7.

Estimates of Measures of Childhood Health on Undernourished, Overweight, Memory, and Depression by Province of Residence (Robust standard errors in parenthesis below estimated coefficients)

	Men			Women
	Zhejiang	Gansu	difference	Zhejiang	Gansu	difference
	Undernourished (BMI < 18.5)
“Excellent” or “V good” child health	-0.031 (0.020)	-0.064* (0.032)	-0.035 (0.037)	0.049** (0.023)	-0.060** (0.027)	-0.105*** (0.035)
height (cm)	0.001 (0.001)	-0.000 (0.002)	-0.002 (0.002)	0.004* (0.002)	-0.003 (0.002)	-0.003 (0.003)
N	470	409		482	387
	Overweight (BMI > 25)
“Excellent” or “V good” child health	0.073** (0.033)	0.050 (0.035)	-0.027 (0.046)	-0.063 (0.041)	-0.014 (0.053)	0.051 (0.067)
height (cm)	0.005 (0.003)	0.001 (0.003)	-0.003 (0.004)	0.004 (0.004)	0.002 (0.005)	-0.002 (0.006)
N	470	409		482	387
	Depression—CESD
“Excellent” or “V good” child health	-0.136 (0.376)	-0.716 (0.671)	-0.558 (0.767)	-0.916** (0.394)	-2.538*** (0.893)	-1.638* (0.964)
height (cm)	-0.043 (0.039)	-0.111** (0.054)	-0.055 (0.065)	-0.043 (0.042)	-0.023 (0.082)	0.001 (0.089)
N	424	365		416	307
	Memory
“Excellent” or “V good” child health	0.040 (0.194)	0.050 (0.179)	0.012 (0.267)	0.031 (0.163)	0.491** (0.188)	0.458* (0.250)
height (cm)	0.019 (0.017)	0.036** (0.015)	0.012 (0.023)	0.029* (0.016)	0.032 (0.021)	-0.004 (0.023)
N	382	332		365	267

^***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.