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. 2017 Jun;94:448–464. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.02.007

Table 4.

Testing for significant interactions between parental education and socioeconomic status (asset-based poverty)

Regression number 1 2
Dependent variable HAZ Stunting
Country-varying controls? Yes Yes
Community Fixed effects No Yes
Education rank included? No No
Mother's education (years) 0.019∗∗∗ −0.006∗∗∗
(0.002) (0.001)
Partner's education (years) 0.011∗∗∗ −0.003∗∗∗
(0.002) (0.001)
Asset poor = 1 −0.135∗∗∗ 0.047∗∗∗
(0.011) (0.004)
Mother's education * Asset poor −0.009∗∗∗ 0.002∗∗∗
(0.002) (0.001)
Father's education * Asset poor 0.001 0.001
(0.001) (0.001)
Difference between genders significant at 10% level if asset poor? No No
N 376,992 376,992

Notes: Cluster-robust standard errors reported in parenthesis. Clustering is at the enumeration level ∗, ∗∗, and ∗∗∗ indicate significance at the 10%, 5% and 1% significance levels respectively. The “Asset poverty” indicator is a dichotomous variable equal to one if a household’s wealth score is below the 40th percentile. The wealth score is constructed from the first principal component of a common set of asset indicators: electricity access, radio ownership, TV ownership, improved floor material, ownership of a flush toilet and ownership of a basic toilet. See the text for a description of the models and other variables used in these regressions.