Table 1.

Descriptive statistics.

	Mean	Std. dev.
Child died	0.08	0.27
Husband is not migrant	0.62	0.49
Husband is migrant	0.38	0.49
Objective migration success: husband sent remittances in past year
Husband is successful migrant	0.27	0.45
Husband is unsuccessful migrant	0.10	0.30
Subjective migration success: based on wife's perceptions
Husband is successful migrant	0.20	0.41
Husband is unsuccessful migrant	0.17	0.38
Community measures
Village average household economic status (0–3 scale)	1.21	0.39
Average distance to health clinic (kilometers)	5.63	4.56
Percent of households with male labor migrant	0.54	0.10
Male labor migration from community increased in past 10 years	0.61	0.49
Wife's age	26.75	5.62
Wife no education	0.27	0.44
Wife education 1–4 years	0.46	0.50
Wife education 5+ years	0.27	0.45
Polygamous union	0.19	0.39
Wife is currently employed (time-varying)	0.29	0.45
Wife's children ever born (time-varying)	3.86	1.91
Wife had short birth interval (≤24 months) before focal child	0.67	0.47
Child is male	0.52	0.50
Husband's age	33.18	8.82
Husband no education	0.18	0.38
Husband education 1–4 years	0.44	0.50
Husband education 5+ years	0.38	0.48
No religion	0.15	0.36
Mainline religion	0.26	0.44
Other religion	0.58	0.49
Household economic status (0–3 scale)	1.20	0.74

N = 1932 children.