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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2012 Mar 19;74(2):328–341. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00951.x

Table 3. Fixed-effect Regressions Predicting Children’s Education on Family Migration Status and Other Covariates, Children Age 7-18 in 2000-2006, CHNS (standard errors in parentheses).

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Living in labor migrant HH
(ref. in non-migrants HH)		 0.21**
(0.08)
Parental migration status,
aggregated (ref. non-migrants)
 One or both parents migrant 0.09a
(0.09)
 Sibling migrant 0.32***
(0.09)
Parental migration status, complete
(ref. non-migrants)
 Mother migrant −0.08a
(0.17)
 Father migrant 0.09a
(0.12)
 Both parents migrant 0.14
(0.19)
 Sibling migrant 0.33***
(0.09)
Age 1.47**
(0.45)		 1.40**
(0.46)		 1.39**
(0.46)
Age squared −0.01***
(0.003)		 −0.01***
(0.003)		 −0.01***
(0.003)
Number of school-age children in
the HH		 0.05
(0.06)		 0.06
(0.06)		 0.07
(0.06)
Extended family 0.25
(0.15)		 0.26
(0.16)		 0.27†
(0.15)
HH highest education level
(ref. no education)
 Primary school 0.19
(0.23)		 0.19
(0.24)		 0.20
(0.23)
 Lower middle school 0.22
(0.22)		 0.21
(0.23)		 0.24
(0.23)
 Some high school or more 0.90***
(0.24)		 0.87***
(0.25)		 0.90***
(0.24)
Per capita HH annual income (log) 0.06
(0.05)		 0.06
(0.05)		 0.05
(0.04)
Constant −9.16*
(3.98)		 −8.37*
(4.04)		 −8.63*
(4.06)

Note: N = 885. The FE models drop stable factors including gender and province of residence, which are essentially adjusted for in the models.

a

This denotes that the coefficient is significantly or marginally different from coefficient for SM households at 0.05 level.

†

p < .10.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.