Table 4. Robustness checks.
Robustness check 1 | Robustness check 2 | Robustness check 3 | |
Prob that child died in week 1: full sample | Prob that child died in neonatal period: sample of mothers who had institutional delivery | Prob that child died in neonatal period: sample of mothers who had accessed prenatal care | |
Distance of village from DH | 0.0001***(0.0000) | 0.00004*(0.0000) | 0.00004** (0.000) |
Delivery room at DH | −0.0010 (0.0012) | −0.0009 (0.0016) | −0.0018 (0.0013) |
24-hr availability of gyn at DH | −0.0011(0.0012) | −0.0017(0.0020) | −0.0020*(0.0012) |
Paediatrician at DH | −0.0003(0.0002) | −0.0004(0.0004) | −0.0003(0.0003) |
Distance of village from CHC | −0.0000(0.0000) | 0.0001(0.0001) | −0.0000 |
Gynaecologists at CHC | −0.0000(0.0008) | 0.0006(0.0010) | 0.0006 (0.0009) |
Paediatrician at CHC | 0.0009(0.0010) | 0.0020 (0.0019) | 0.0020*(0.0012) |
Operation theatre at CHC | 0.0011(0.0010) | 0.0016(0.0016) | −0.0001(0.0015) |
Referral as a share of delivery (PHC) | −0.0000(0.0001) | −0.0001(0.0001) | −0.0000(0.0001) |
Operation theatre at PHC | −0.0002(0.0008) | 0.0014 (0.0015) | 0.0006 (0.0012) |
Distance of village from PHC | −0.0001*(0.0001) | −0.0001(0.0001) | –0.0001**(0.0001) |
Distance to pvt clinic/hospital | −0.0000(0.0000) | −0.0000(0.0000) | −0.0000(0.0000) |
State dummy variables | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Observations | 99,735 | 34,781 | 68,483 |
Standard errors are in parentheses. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1. As in Table 3, all socioeconomic and birth related characteristics are included.