Table 7.

Fixed effects regressions of province-level characteristics with I(2) for children below and beyond 10 years of age

	Pooled Sample		Below 10 years of age		Beyond 10 years of age
Variable	Coef.	Sig.	Coef.	Sig.	Coef.	Sig.
Age14	−1.974	†	−4.296	*	0.797
Primary school enrollments	−0.0001		−8.34e-5		−2.38e-6
Middle school enrollments	−0.0004	*	−0.0007	†	2.3e-4	***
Urbanization rate	−2.729	***	−3.36	**	−2.051	*
LnGDP	−0.236	*	−0.4208	*	0.067
Engel Coefficient	0.838		0.6873		1.741
Unemployment rate	0.458		1.0450		−4.558
Health expenditure	−0.002	***	−0.0021	**	−0.0020	***
Health Institutions Density	0.005		0.0037		0.0077	†
Hospital beds	0.026		0.055	†	−0.0105
Constant	3.567	**	5.462	*	0.282
R2	0.9505		0.8611		0.9171
Hausman-test	chi2(7) =27.96	***	chi2(7) =21.51	**	chi2(7) =20.56	**

Note: Authors’ calculations from the CHNS data (1989, 19991, 1993, 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2009).

†P < 0.1, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.