Table 3.

Association between caregiver depression and child developmental outcomes using OLS, n = 1,787.

Independent variables	Caregiver depression (1 = yes; 0 = no)
	OLS
Cognitive development (test points)	0.375
	(0.670)
N	1,787
Language development (test points)	−1.562**
	(0.761)
N	1,787
Social-emotional development (SD)	0.529***
	(0.065)
N	1,787
Cohort dummies	Y
Controls	Y

Source: Authors' survey.

Control variables are child's age, child's gender, whether the child was premature, whether the child has a sibling, migration, caregiver type, age of primary caregiver, educational level of primary caregiver, educational level of father, asset index, whether the household receives government welfare, the number of households in the village, and distance between the village and the township.

^**significant at 5%;

^***significant at 1%. Robust standard errors in parentheses clustered at village level.