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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2018 Sep 17;77:130–147. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.09.002

Appendix E.

Regression Analysis of Child’s BPI by Migration Status and Child’s Age and Sex (Standard Errors in Parentheses).

Internalizing BPI
Externalizing BPI
Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4


Boys, Age 3-9 (N=1,484)
Migration status (ref. rural local, both parents)
 Left behind, both away 0.137 (0.462) 0.090 (0.468) 0.353 (0.449) 0.731 (0.772) 0.322 (0.776) 0.057 (0.762)

Boys, Age 10-15 (N=890)
Migration status (ref. rural local, both parents)
 Left behind, both away 1.298* (0.588) 1.007 (0.600) 0.478 (0.585) 2.016 (1.056) 1.484 (1.104) 1,012 (1.134)

Girls, Age 3-9 (N=1,202)
Migration status (ref. rural local, both parents)
 Left behind, both away 1.328** (0.472) 1.094* (0.476) 0.761 (0.447) 0.987 (0.818) 0.725 (0.824) 0.421 (0.810)

Girls, Age 10-15 (N=762)
Migration status (ref. rural local, both parents)
 Left behind, both away 0.838 (0.619) 0.642 (0.637) 0.004 (0.601) 2.067* (1.014) 1.737 (1.006) 1.291 (0.984)
*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.

Note: For migration status, only coefficients for children left behind by both parents are shown. Other covariates and other categories of the migration variable are the same as those in Table 3.