Table 8.

Child Early Health Shocks and Parental Labor Supply and Consumption

	Dependent variables:
	Labor supply		Consumption
	Father	Mother	Father	Mother
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Early health shocks	−0.048 [0.078]	0.054** [0.024]	−128.808* [77.978]	27.751 [73.685]
Child birth weights (mean)	0.015 [0.020]	0.002 [0.014]	77.850* [44.919]	27.692 [30.173]
Child age	−0.000 [0.004]	0.005 [0.005]	−8.672 [7.799]	−9.728 [7.860]
Male twins	0.005 [0.023]	−0.017 [0.021]	−60.571 [54.827]	−22.393 [28.318]
Female twins	−0.023 [0.022]	−0.034 [0.021]	−28.210 [57.334]	42.148 [38.050]
Born at the first parity	−0.003 [0.026]	−0.049** [0.023]	−15.817 [43.038]	4.098 [30.684]
Age	−0.003 [0.002]	−0.005 [0.004]	−13.630*** [3.359]	−5.438** [2.629]
Ethnicity (Han=1)	−0.028* [0.016]	−0.030* [0.016]	−47.481 [59.532]	−127.626 [97.041]
Schooling years	−0.007 [0.005]	0.001 [0.004]	0.218 [11.718]	29.564* [16.167]
Working in public sector	−0.012 [0.028]	−0.054*** [0.021]	21.079 [101.420]	294.633** [141.145]
Rural	0.017 [0.018]	0.017 [0.016]	40.632 [55.064]	82.299 [58.220]
Household asset	−0.004 [0.006]	−0.010 [0.007]	230.205*** [29.027]	125.220*** [13.827]
# Households	1,158	1,044	1,416	1,437

Note: Columns (1)–(4) reports the OLS estimates. Standard errors are in brackets;

^*significant at 10%;

^**significant at 5%;

^***significant at 1%.