Table 4.

Effect of community mortality on probability of a post-tsunami birth

Covariates	Fraction of Total Population in Community That Died, by Woman’s Characteristics at Time of Tsunami						Fraction of Children That Died
	(1)	Parity		Age	Completed High School
		≤3	>3	25–34	No	Yes
		(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)
Fraction Died in Tsunami Interacted With
A. Mother lost at least one child	0.460 [0.184]	0.578 [0.231]	0.056 [0.325]	0.279 [0.372]	0.204 [0.220]	1.077 [0.311]	0.315 [0.146]
B. Woman childless pre-tsunami	0.468 [0.181]	0.488 [0.190]	–– [0.421]	1.238 [0.231]	0.400 [0.345]	0.565 [0.153]	0.341
Mother Lost ≥1 Child in Tsunami	0.012 [0.043]	0.004 [0.053]	0.088 [0.077]	0.204 [0.106]	0.029 [0.046]	–0.024 [0.110]	0.026 [0.041]
Woman Childless Pre-tsunami	–0.150 [0.025]	–0.167 [0.030]	–– [0.051]	–0.224 [0.032]	–0.155 [0.046]	–0.153 [0.025]	–0.146
Woman’s Parity at Tsunami	–0.008 [0.005]	–0.022 [0.011]	0.013 [0.012]	–0.008 [0.016]	–0.010 [0.006]	–0.001 [0.013]	–0.008 [0.005]
Woman Exposed to Tsunami Waves	0.028 [0.026]	0.026 [0.029]	–0.022 [0.039]	–0.013 [0.062]	0.023 [0.033]	0.049 [0.043]	0.028 [0.026]
Woman Completed Junior High	0.029 [0.023]	0.021 [0.029]	0.071 [0.044]	0.118 [0.077]	0.034 [0.024]	–– [0.023]	0.028
Woman Completed High School	0.092 [0.028]	0.091 [0.034]	0.112 [0.067]	0.162 [0.080]	–– [0.028]	––	0.090
Sample Size	3,936	3,347	589	1,264	2,675	1,261	3,931
Number of Communities	283	283	226	268	272	233	280
R2	.16	.13	.19	.07	.15	.17	.16
F Test (p value)
Row A = Row B	.970	.707	.020	.489	.193	.882
Rows A and B = 0	.008	.010	.863	.011	.191	.002	.025

Notes: Linear probability models with community fixed effects for all women age 15–49 and living in mortality-affected districts at time of tsunami. See notes to Table 3.