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. 2017 Aug;26:86–95. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2017.02.002

Table 3.

Estimates of coefficients of nutritional variables for Models in Group I.

Model Variables other than controls WAZ8 HAZ8 EGRA Math PPVT
C R-squared (RC2) 0.314 0.282 0.175 0.345 0.281



0 Norm. birth weight (y0) 0.153*** 0.134*** −0.005 0.009 −0.017
(0.031) (0.027) (0.032) (0.036) (0.025)
R2- RC2 0.014 0.011 0.001 0.004 0.002



1W Weight-for-age at 1 year 0.561*** 0.376*** 0.119*** 0.097*** 0.024
(0.022) (0.020) (0.022) (0.022) (0.022)
R2 0.489 0.402 0.188 0.357 0.283



1H Height-for-age at 1 year 0.436*** 0.478*** 0.106*** 0.100*** 0.041**
(0.027) (0.021) (0.021) (0.017) (0.018)
R2 0.436 0.500 0.187 0.359 0.284



2W Unpredicted weight gain (y1) 0.507*** 0.336*** 0.113*** 0.090*** 0.025
(0.021) (0.018) (0.021) (0.019) (0.020)
R2 0.482 0.394 0.189 0.357 0.283



2H Unpredicted height growth (y2) 0.418*** 0.461*** 0.106*** 0.099*** 0.043**
(0.026) (0.022) (0.022) (0.017) (0.017)
R2 0.430 0.493 0.188 0.359 0.285

Notes: The variables on early childhood nutrition and on test scores in EGRA, Math and PPVT are normalized by the sample standard deviations; Number of observations: 1758; the standard errors (in parentheses, underneath the coefficients) are robust to heteroscedasticity.

*p < 0.1.

**

p < 0.05.

***

p < 0.01.