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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Popul Econ. 2014 Mar 25;27(4):1145–1163. doi: 10.1007/s00148-014-0506-z

Table 3.

Infant Mortality and the Effect of Completed Sibship (Gross): OLS Regressions

OLS OLS OLS OLS OLS
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
Completed Sibship (Gross) 0.009*** 0.012*** 0.010*** 0.011*** 0.011***
(0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001)
Male 0.031*** 0.033*** 0.033*** 0.034*** 0.034***
(0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.005) (0.006)
Year/100 0.142 0.167 0.640** 0.535* 0.622*
(0.191) (0.260) (0.267) (0.274) (0.340)
(Year/100)2/100 −2.306 −2.725 −15.711** −12.985* −15.425
(5.311) (7.183) (7.390) (7.586) (9.407)
Mother’s Age at Birth/100 0.406*** 0.327*** 0.330*** 0.385***
(0.055) (0.055) (0.058) (0.071)
Father’s Age at Birth/100 −0.015 0.061 0.056 0.059
(0.047) (0.047) (0.050) (0.063)
Mother’s Age at Death/100 −0.228*** −0.211*** −0.094*** −0.085***
(0.018) (0.018) (0.023) (0.029)
Father’s Age at Death/100 −0.050** −0.060*** −0.059*** −0.085***
(0.020) (0.019) (0.021) (0.027)

Father’s Occupation N Y Y Y Y
Village Fixed Effects N N Y Y Y
Mother Survived until the Age of 40 N N N Y Y
Time Till First Birth >269 Days N N N N Y
Observations 47,665 34,171 34,171 30,442 18,878
***

p<0.01,

**

p<0.05,

*

p<0.1.

Clustered, at the family level, standard errors in parentheses.