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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 30.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2012 Jul 4;75(8):1531–1538. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.06.001

Table 2.

Socioeconomic outcomes for healthy and sick brothers, by sickness type.

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)





All brother pairs (Repeated from Column A, Table 1) Brother pairs in which both are 16 or younger Brother pairs ; in which both were located in 1920 or 1930 Brother pairs in which the sick brother was older Brother pairs in which the sick brother was not older





Brother is… Brother is… Brother is… Brother is… Brother is…





…Healthy …Sick …Healthy …Sick …Healthy …Sick …Healthy …Sick …Healthy …Sick
Cannot read and write 3.0% 5.4% p = 0.01 2.3% 4.2% p = 0.06 2.0% 4.4% p = 0.02 2.9% 5.0% p = 0.07 3.1% 5.9% p = 0.03
(n = 943 pairs) (n = 478 pairs) (n = 453 pairs) (n = 517 pairs) (n = 426 pairs)
Out of the labor force 10.1% 15.7% p < 0.01 6.1°% 9.4% p = 0.06 9.5% 16.2% p < 0.01 8.2% 19.4% p< 0.0l 12.4% 11.3% p = 0.59
(n = 962 pairs) (n = 490 pairs) (n = 463 pairs) (n = 527 pairs) (n = 435 pairs)
Occupational standing (n = 735 pairs) (n = 417 pairs) (n = 357 pairs) (n = 357 pairs) (n = 357 pairs)
 Farmer 24.8% 27.8% p = 0.12 22.1% 27.1% p = 0.05 25.8% 29.4% p = 0.20 24.3% 31.2% p= 0.02 25.2% 23.8% p = 0.58
 Occ. prestige (sd) 37.1 (12.6) 37.2 (12.2) p = 0.88 36.9 (12.4) 37.4 (12 .0) p = 0.55 37.7(12.1) 37.9(12.1) p = 0.85 36.7 (12.7) 37.1 (11.5) p = 0.61 37.7 (12.4) 37.4 (12.9) p = 0.47
 Occ. earnings (sd) 44.4 (33.0) 44.3 (32.3) p = 0.47 45.3 (32.6) 43.7 (32.5) p = 0.40 46.5 (33.7) 43.1 (33.3) p = 0.12 43.5 (33.1) 41.4 (32.0) p = 0.29 45.3 (32.9) 45.5 (32.7) p = 0.82
 Occ. education (sd) 13.1 (18.4) 12.4 (16.4) p = 0.41 13.0 (18.1) 11.9 (16.0) p = 0.25 12.9(17.9) 12.9(17.0) p = 0.99 12.7 (17.4) 11.4 (14.8) p = 0.22 13.6(19.5) 13.6(18.1) p = 0.82
 Occ. SEI (sd) 29.8 (23.9) 29.3 (23.4) p = 0.67 29.8 (23.5) 29.2 (22.9) p = 0.64 30.4 (24.3) 30.2 (24.0) p = 0.89 29.4 (23.8) 27.6 (22.1) p = 0.23 30.2(24.1) 31.3 (24.7) p = 0.69
Ever married 83.0% 76.1% p < 0.01 81.0% 78.0% p = 0.20 90.5% 86.0% p = 0.02 82.2% 77.4% p= 0.04 83.9% 74.5% p < 0.01
(n = 962 pairs) (n = 490 pairs) (n = 463 pairs) (n = 527 pairs) (n = 435 pairs)

Note: p values are from tests of the null hypothesis that the population mean difference between healthy and sick boys is zero. For dichotomous outcomes (literacy, labor force participation, whether the man is a farmer, and marital status), these tests were performed using family fixed effects logit models. For continuous outcomes (occupational standing), these tests were performed using paired t-tests. Bolded values indicate that the null hypothesis is rejected at the 0.05 level.