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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Econ Hum Biol. 2014 Dec;15:187–200. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2014.09.002

Appendix Table 3.

Estimated Effects of Fetal Growth Rate on Speech and Sensory Impairment

Ever-diagnosed
developmental disability
Speech impairment
Hearing impairment
Vision difficulty
Prevalence 10.86% 3.76% 6.90%
Log of FGR −0.02
(0.06)
−0.15**
(0.08)
0.02
(0.03)
0.08*
(0.04)
−0.02
(0.05)
−0.04
(0.07)
Log of FGR * male −0.15
(0.10)
0.09
(0.06)
−0.09
(0.08)
Log of FGR * female −0.16*
(0.09)
0.07
(0.05)
0.01
(0.09)
Gestational week 32-37 0.02
(0.04)
−0.01
(0.06)
−0.01
(0.06)
−0.02
(0.02)
−0.02
(0.03)
−0.02
(0.03)
−0.03
(0.03)
−0.05
(0.05)
−0.05
(0.05)
Gestational week <32 0.01
(0.13)
−0.12
(0.12)
−0.13
(0.12)
0.04
(0.07)
−0.08
(0.09)
−0.09
(0.10)
0.34**
(0.15)
0.35**
(0.15)
0.36**
(0.15)

N 1464 1464 1464 1464 1464 1464 1464 1464 1464
Adjusted R2 0.027 0.066 0.066 −0.0 0.004 0.003 0.025 0.029 0.030
F statistics 0.01 0.05 0.82
p-value 0.92 0.82 0.37

Mother FE No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes

Note: 1997, 2002-3, 2007 waves of the PSID-CDS are used. N denotes the number of children. All regressions include the controls for child's sex, race, lifetime family income, mother's age and marital status at child's birth, cigarette excise tax at child birth, a set of indicators for birth order, home environment, and mother's education. Table shows F-statistics and p-values for testing the equality of the coefficients on the two interaction terms (Log FGR*male and Log FGR*female). Robust standard errors in parentheses are clustered at the mother level.

*

p<0.1,

**

p<0.05,

*** p<0.01.