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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2018 Aug 13;61:134–150. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.07.004

Table 7:

Shale Gas Development on Maternal Subgroups


(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
High School
dropout
Smoker Nonsmoker Medicaid WIC College

Panel A: Low Birth Weight

Within 2.5 km * post 0.0432 0.0186 0.0122** 0.0413*** 0.0138** 0.0105
(0.0268) (0.0132) (0.00470) (0.0120) (0.00645) (0.00995)
Observations 2,434 6,465 15,145 7,047 8,541 6,260
R-squared 0.072 0.034 0.018 0.029 0.024 0.029
Pre-drilling Mean 0.0847 0.0830 0.0456 0.0747 0.064 0.0414

Panel B: Term Birth Weight

Within 2.5 km * post −42.09 −56.15 −51.36** −62.97* −38.30 −49.61*
(41.26) (37.10) (19.04) (36.70) (29.02) (28.45)
Observations 2,191 5,773 13,763 6,375 7,748 5,699
R-squared 0.131 0.064 0.042 0.077 0.076 0.055
Pre-drilling Mean 3305 3272 3479 3325 3349 3494

Panel C: Premature

Within 2.5 km * post 0.0181 −0.00393 −0.000441 −0.00579 −0.00160 0.000744
(0.0233) (0.00950) (0.00753) (0.0136) (0.0142) (0.0134)
Observations 2,409 6,338 14,851 6,973 8,418 6,122
R-squared 0.070 0.026 0.015 0.027 0.021 0.030
Pre-drilling Mean 0.0896 0.0867 0.0749 0.0859 0.0782 0.0713

Notes: Each coefficient is from a different regression. See Table 4 for details about included covariates.

Significance:

*

p<0.10,

**

p<0.05,

***

p<0.01.