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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Hum Resour. 2011 Summer;46(3):518–538. doi: 10.1353/jhr.2011.0024

Table 3.

Impact of Prenatal Assault on Birth Weight - Does Timing Matter?

Birth Weight (Grams)
No Controls Parsimonious Controls Full Controls
Assault in first trimester −270.608
[6.06]
−163.434
[3.89]
−166.171
[4.00]
Assault in second trimester −308.035
[8.18]
−104.91
[3.47]
−118.4
[3.98]
Assault in third trimester −198.599
[8.19]
−101.37
[4.52]
−96.605
[4.42]
Assault prior to conception −220.934
[5.12]
−57.461
[1.64]
−61.52
[1.79]
Gestation 16.328
[473.07]
15.471
[448.29]
MediCal −38.846
[71.27]
−24.183
[41.97]
Black −150.097
[44.25]
−114.884
[32.53]
White 29.35
[9.10]
29.447
[9.32]
Hispanic −16.182
[27.91]
4.663
[5.59]
Single −21.52
[32.43]
Over 35 years old 30.503
[30.25]
Teen mother −92.743
[129.49]
< HS −4.422
[5.21]
HS −7.833
[10.88]
Male 121.978
[249.25]
Twin birth −638.967
[366.61]
Father black 32.661
[13.69]
Father white 70.419
[35.71]
Father Hispanic 41.729
[20.98]
Father <HS −18.829
[16.54]
Father HS −20.691
[20.24]
Father some college −7.382
[7.01]
Father information missing −47.994
[34.02]
County unemployment rate 75.57
[2.20]
County per capita income (real) −3.908
[1.38]
Domestic violence shelters per 100,000 adult women −0.868
[1.48]
Number of clinincs per 1000 women 0.203
[2.70]
Observations 4486227 4221202 4221202
R-squared 0 0.27 0.31

Robust t statistics in brackets

Note: also included are year and county fixed effects