Table 4.

Models of Literacy, Target Child Sample, 2004.

	(1)		(2)		(3a)		(3b)
	Baseline, Dichotomous Food Insecurity		Socioeconomic Controls, Dichotomous Food Insecurity		Prior ability and Achievement, Dichotomous Food Insecurity		Prior ability and Achievement, Food Insecurity Severity Index
	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se
Height-for-Age Z	0.142***	0.034	0.106***	0.023	0.019	0.021	0.023	0.021
Weight-for-Age Z	−0.014	0.031
Food Insecurity	−0.524***	0.094	−0.406***	0.094	−0.335***	0.084	−0.102***	0.037
Age	0.185***	0.022	0.173***	0.022	−0.028	0.023	−0.026	0.023
Female	−0.242***	0.049	−0.215***	0.047	−0.158***	0.042	−0.157***	0.043
Wealth Quintiles (Ref.=Poorest)	Second		0.131*	0.076	0.046	0.068	0.047	0.069
	Third		0.150**	0.076	0.045	0.068	0.048	0.068
	Fourth		0.173**	0.076	0.031	0.068	0.043	0.069
	Fifth		0.275***	0.078	0.065	0.071	0.074	0.071
Mother's Education (Years)			0.037***	0.007	0.014**	0.007	0.014**	0.007
Father's Education (Years)			0.026***	0.007	0.003	0.007	0.004	0.007
Prior Cognitive Test (2000)					0.012***	0.002	0.012***	0.002
Prior Math Achievement (2000)					0.005**	0.002	0.005*	0.002
Prior Language Achievement (2000)					0.001	0.002	0.002	0.002
Grade Attained					0.246***	0.017	0.245***	0.017
Constant	−2.356***	0.326	−2.718***	0.320	−1.978***	0.321	−2.047***	0.321
N	1,511		1,526		1,521		1,521
Adjusted r-squared	0.090		0.135		0.308		0.304

Notes:

^***p<0.01

^**p<0.05

^*p<0.1.

Parental education measures are set to 0 if parents have died. Models also include dummy variables indicating if mother died or father died.