Table 4.

Regression results for alternate measures of early childbearing, women born 1977–1984, Malawi 2010 Demographic and Health Survey.

	(1) Birth by age 18			(2) Birth by age 20			(3) Age at first marriage
	Coef.	SE		Coef.	SE		Coef.	SE
Years of schooling	0.09	0.05		0.11	0.05	*	−0.38	0.22
Ethnicity (ref. Chewa)
Tumbuka	−0.20	0.14		−0.34	0.12	**	0.79	0.47
Lomwe	0.17	0.09		0.10	0.09		−0.63	0.28	*
Yao	−0.13	0.10		−0.11	0.10		0.13	0.33
Ngoni	−0.12	0.10		−0.15	0.09		0.61	0.35
Other	0.03	0.09		−0.04	0.09		−0.01	0.26
Religion (ref. Catholic)
Protestant	0.16	0.06	**	0.11	0.06		−0.59	0.24	*
Muslim	0.42	0.11	***	0.37	0.11	***	−1.74	0.48	***
Other/none	0.53	0.21	*	0.41	0.21		−1.76	0.80	*
Urban	−0.42	0.15	**	−0.62	0.12	***	2.18	0.68	***
Constant	−0.88	0.29	**	−0.26	0.37		20.73	1.35	***
District Fixed Effects	Yes			Yes			Yes
N	6185			6185			6037
Model type	IV probit			IV probit			2SLS

Note:

^*p<0.05

^**p<0.01

^***p<0.001