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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 A4:

Impact of Number of Wells by Proximity


(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
d < 2 km d < 2:5 km d < 3 km d < 3:5 km d < 4 km d < 4:5 km d < 5 km

Panel A: Low Birth Weight

Wells in ‘d‘ km * post-drilling 0.00410* 0.00306*** 0.00232*** 0.00122** 0.000266 0.000194 0.000209
(0.00231) (0.000931) (0.000758) (0.000509) (0.000433) (0.000302) (0.000260)
Observations 14,049 21,524 28,756 36,241 44,442 51,994 58,976
R-squared 0.023 0.021 0.020 0.019 0.018 0.018 0.017
Pre-drilling Mean 0.0583 0.0570 0.0578 0.0578 0.0575 0.0573 0.0575

Panel B: Term Birth Weight

Wells in ‘d’ km * post-drilling −3.857 −5.386*** −4.716*** −3.152*** −2.429*** −1.438** −0.930**
(2.609) (1.632) (1.331) (0.818) (0.644) (0.570) (0.415)
Observations 12,694 19,463 25,969 32,692 40,067 46,822 53,049
R-squared 0.080 0.076 0.078 0.077 0.079 0.076 0.075
Pre-drilling Mean 3415 3416 3415 3412 3412 3415 3415

Panel C: Premature

Wells in ‘d’ km * post-drilling 0.00366* 0.00257** 0.00212** 0.000889 0.000281 0.000235 0.000406
(0.00210) (0.00123) (0.000889) (0.000718) (0.000602) (0.000398) (0.000331)
Observations 13,784 21,109 28,206 35,519 43,506 50,825 57,606
R-squared 0.017 0.011 0.010 0.010 0.009 0.008 0.008
Pre-drilling Mean 0.0803 0.0785 0.0790 0.0789 0.0781 0.0781 0.0786

Notes: See Table 6 for specification details.

Significance:

*

p<0.10,

**

p<0.05,

***

p<0.01.