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Published in final edited form as: Popul Res Policy Rev. 2013 Jan 31;32(4):553–584. doi: 10.1007/s11113-013-9269-6

Table 4.

Weekly hours of housework in India by family size

Variables	(1) All	(2) 1 Child	(3) 2 Children	(4) 3 Children	(5) 4 Children
Girl	−0.548^*** (0.135)	0.006 (0.472)	−0.158 (0.206)	−0.314 (0.268)	−0.747^* (0.389)
Son preference (=1 if SP > 0.5)	−0.160^** (0.081)	−0.442 (0.344)	−0.135 (0.161)	−0.160 (0.145)	−0.071 (0.196)
SP (=1 if SP >0.5) ^* Girl	0.862^*** (0.099)	1.594^** (0.628)	1.109^*** (0.244)	0.735^*** (0.175)	0.603^*** (0.222)
Constant	2.550^*** (0.282)	1.075 (0.786)	0.527 (0.402)	0.503 (0.504)	0.509 (0.681)
Observations	80,657	2,752	18,483	22,003	16,151
R²		0.142
Number of groups	3,847		3,400	3,471	2,771

OLS in the sample of families with one child and linear model with random effects for all other columns. Models include all mother and children’s characteristics, state characteristic, and regional and religious controls as in column (5) of Table 2

Standard errors in parentheses

p <0.05;

^**

p <0.01;

^***

p <0.001

Source NFHS-3, 2005