Table 3.
Impact of Prenatal Assault on Birth Weight - Does Timing Matter?
| Birth Weight (Grams) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 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] |
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| Over 35 years old | 30.503 [30.25] |
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| Teen mother | −92.743 [129.49] |
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| < HS | −4.422 [5.21] |
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| HS | −7.833 [10.88] |
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| Male | 121.978 [249.25] |
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| Twin birth | −638.967 [366.61] |
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| Father black | 32.661 [13.69] |
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| Father white | 70.419 [35.71] |
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| Father Hispanic | 41.729 [20.98] |
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| Father <HS | −18.829 [16.54] |
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| Father HS | −20.691 [20.24] |
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| Father some college | −7.382 [7.01] |
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| Father information missing | −47.994 [34.02] |
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| County unemployment rate | 75.57 [2.20] |
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| County per capita income (real) | −3.908 [1.38] |
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| Domestic violence shelters per 100,000 adult women | −0.868 [1.48] |
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| Number of clinincs per 1000 women | 0.203 [2.70] |
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| 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