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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 8.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2015 Apr;52(2):641–666. doi: 10.1007/s13524-014-0356-z

Table 2.

Bivariate fixed-effect models of the main controls on the change in child sex ratio (coefficients, with standard errors in parentheses)

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
TFR −11.530**
(0.788)
IMR −0.39**
(0.034)
Total % Literate 1.003**
(0.057)
Total % Literate, Females 0.829**
(0.048)
Total % Literate, Males 1.205**
(0.067)
% Rural −0.48**
(0.120)
% Scheduled Caste 0.601**
(0.214)
% Scheduled Tribe 0.409†
(0.212)
Constant 19.66**
(2.754)		 3.738†
(2.148)		 −83.48**
(3.654)		 −63.26**
(2.577)		 13.765
(8.464)		 −29.99**
(3.714)		 −23.41**
(1.991)
Observations 1,745 1,747 1,748 1,748 1,720 1,742 1,743
R2 .157 .101 .212 .205 .014 .007 .003
Number of Districts 590 590 590 590 590 590 590
†

p < .10;

**

p < .01