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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Econ Ageing. 2014 Mar 21;4:26–34. doi: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2014.02.002

Table 6.

OLS results of cognition

model 1 model 2 model 3



men women B(m)=B(w) men women B(m)=B(w) men women B(m)=B(w)
coef coef F coef coef F coef coef F
punjab 2.315 * 0.838 2.56 2.873 ** 2.178 ** 0.61 3.250 *** 2.07 *** 1.99
rajasthan −1.577 3.132 *** 3.18 −1.467 −2.300 *** 0.93 0.609 −0.961 3.44
kerala 0.682 1.908 * 2.34 −1.586 −0.501 1.03 −2.435 ** −2.929 *** 0.29

SC −4.232 *** 3.134 *** 1.64 −3.59 *** −2.167 *** 2.36 −1.085 −0.509 0.43
ST −5.040 *** 3.818 *** 1.16 −4.174 *** −2.718 *** 1.55 −1.343 −1.423 0.00
OBC −1.075 1.211 * 0.04 −0.574 −0.454 0.03 −0.020 0.246 0.15

age −0.136 *** 0.160 *** 1.36 −0.12 *** −0.141 *** 0.73 −0.076 *** −0.089 *** 0.25
rural −2.499 *** 2.657 *** 0.07 −2.058 *** −2.185 *** 0.05 −0.496 −1.216 ** 2.33

father's yrs of schooling 0.206 0.107 0.36 −0.152 −0.121 0.04
mother's yrs of schooling 0.074 0.446 ** 1.96 −0.083 0.149 1.09
father's literacy 1.375 3.398 *** 3.41 0.297 2.196 ** 2.57
mother's literacy 0.933 −0.615 0.56 3.061 ** −0.716 7.15 *

R_height 0.032 0.012 0.27
yrs of schooling 0.498 *** 0.703 *** 3.80
literacy 2.397 ** 0.111 3.95

son's yrs of schooling 0.263 0.155 0.43
daughter's yrs of schooling −0.249 0.358 * 7.86 **
son's literacy 0.170 −0.540 0.50
daughter's literacy 1.530 −0.791 2.41
no son at age 15+ −0.393 −0.561 0.08
no daughter at age 15+ −0.147 0.245 0.51
_cons 27.078 *** 25.49 *** 24.813 *** 22.105 *** 15.101 *** 15.367 ***

N 686 884 625 799 572 742
F-stat 22.69 *** 30.12 *** 30.51 *** 21.41 *** 38.18 *** 30.100 ***
R-sq 0.272 0.3126 0.3113 0.4133 0.5328 0.5564
*

p<.05,

**

p<.01,

***

p<.001,

p<.10