Table 3.

Effect of Hurricane Mitch on the odds of a birth

	Pre-Hurricane Study Period (Robustness Check)		Post-Hurricane Study Period (Main Results)
	1996–1998		1999–2001		2003–2005
	Odds Ratio	Robust SE	Odds Ratio	Robust SE	Odds Ratio	Robust SE
Ln(Mean Mitch Precipitation)	0.99	0.13	1.39*	0.21	1.16	0.22
Individual-level
Age 1998	1.27***	0.06	1.27***	0.07	1.39***	0.14
Age-squared 1998	0.99***	0.00	0.99***	0.001	0.99***	0.002
Children ever born 1998	1.53***	0.06	1.06	0.04	1.09	0.07
Married 1998	2.41***	0.33	2.21***	0.30	1.17	0.14
Schooling level 1998 (none – ref.)
Some primary	1.46**	0.21	0.74*	0.10	0.88	0.20
Secondary or more	1.53*	0.28	0.889	0.17	0.95	0.24
Household-level
Rural	0.93	0.13	1.18	0.14	1.59*	0.33
Atlantic region	1.21	0.30	1.89*	0.51	2.20†	0.98
Asset score 1998	0.87**	0.04	0.79***	0.03	0.95	0.06
Constant	0.02***	0.02	0.003***	0.004	0.002***	0.005
N	3,207		3,207		2,134

Level of significance:

^***p≤ 0.001,

^**p ≤0.01,

^*p ≤ 0.05,

^†p ≤ 0.10