Table 3.

Coefficients of median regression of nominal change in wealth from 2001 to 2003 (assets value in thousands pesos).

Variables	Male spouses or couple		Female spouses
	Coeff	SE	Coeff	SE
Consensual union	−14.3	11.5
Married (Ref)	0.0
Family variables
Male spouse’s age (in decades)	9.9	8.1
Difference Female’s age - Male’s age (in years)			−0.7	0.7
Union duration (in decades)	−5.0	7.7
Only one union (Ref)	0.0		0.0
More than one union	20.4	10.9 **	−7.4	12.6
No children	27.4	38.8	−23.8	25.1
1 to 2 children	15.5	20.1	−19.4	22.6
3 to 5 children	−33.0	15.4 **	7.3	15.2
6 or more children (Ref)	0.0		0.0
Household size (# of members)	1.4	2.1
Union before 1975	−0.1	14.3
Union after 1974 (Ref)	0.0
Social variables
Male spouse’s years of schooling	4.2	2.3 *
Difference Female’s -Male’s years of schooling			2.2	2.2
Once a migrant to US	5.6	17.7	32.2	34.6
Never a migrant to US (Ref)	0.0		0.0
Urban	−12.2	10.1
Rural (Ref)	0.0
Having a toilet when child	−4.1	14.1	18.9	11.4 *
Not having a toilet when child (Ref)	0.0		0.0
Health problems when child	8.1	15.2	34.7	14.3 **
No health problems (Ref)	0.0		0.0
Occupational variables
Never worked before	−20.0	40.7 ***	17.0	11.7
Work as:
Employer	−114.2	31.6 ***	−17.2	274.8
Self-employed	−13.9	7.9 *	12.7	15.5
Wage-earner (Ref)	0.0		0.0
Non-paid worker	−25.5	61.7	39.9	16.1 **
Currently working	−5.5	9.6	18.5	12.0 *
Currently not working (Ref)	0.0		0.0
Income (thousand pesos)	0.4	1.0	0.1	1.0
Constant	−48.2	42.5
Adjusted R2	0.0074

Notes:

^*p<0.10;

^**p<0.05;

^***p<0.01