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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Hum Resour. 2016;51(3):523–555. doi: 10.3386/w18422

Table 9.

Does Maternal Human Capital Moderate the Impact of Prenatal Cortisol on Offspring Outcomes?

Dependent Variable= offspring education in years (1)
Mother <HS
(2)
Mother HS
(3)
Mother >=HS
Top quintile prenatal cortisol −1.871 [0.768] −0.873 [0.596] −0.797 [0.560]
Bottom quintile prenatal cortisol −0.113 [0.951] −0.345 [0.429] −0.437 [0.433]
Constant 24.68 [8.547] 9.580 [5.694] 9.003 [5.702]
Observations 143 177 233
R-squared 0.844 0.821 0.802

Sample Sibling
Mother <HS
Sibling
Mother HS
Sibling
Mother >=HS
Full controls Y Y Y
Maternal FE included Y Y Y

Note: Robust standard errors in brackets

Full controls include all controls listed in Table 3, Top Panel