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. 2019 Oct 11;26(31):32360–32367. doi: 10.1007/s11356-019-06478-z

Table 3.

Estimates of conventional drilling on infants’ health (2006–2017)

Variables 0–1 km 1–5 km 5–10 km 10–20 km
Dependent variable: total birth weight
Distance − 0.012 − 0.005 − 0.001 − 0.000
[0.20] [0.34] [0.46] [0.68]
Mother’s age − 0.196** − 0.201** − 0.224** − 0.230**
[0.05] [0.05] [0.04] [0.03]
Mother’s education 0.286*** 0.309*** 0.311*** 0.307***
[0.00] [0.00] [0.00] [0.00]
Mother’s ethnicity/race 0.038 0.044 0.049 0.053
[0.40] [0.32] [0.28] [0.24]
Child parity 0.302*** 0.319*** 0.166*** 0.225***
[0.00] [0.00] [0.01] [0.00]
R-squared adjusted 0.32 0.28 0.23 0.18
Dependent variable: low birth weight
Distance 0.011 0.006 0.000 0.000
[0.29] [0.40] [0.57] [0.72]
Mother’s age 0.162** 0.174** 0.183** 0.179**
[0.05] [0.05] [0.04] [0.04]
Mother’s education − 0.629*** − 0.691*** − 0.654*** − 0.680***
[0.00] [0.00] [0.00] [0.00]
Mother’s ethnicity/race 0.036 0.041 0.033 0.038
[0.39] [0.34] [0.42] [0.37]
Child parity − 0.329*** − 0.286*** − 0.198** − 0.126*
[0.00] [0.01] [0.03] [0.06]
R-squared adjusted 0.41 0.37 0.39 0.31
Dependent variable: health index
Distance − 0.032** − 0.017 − 0.013 − 0.008
[0.05] [0.12] [0.20] [0.29]
Mother’s age − 0.658*** − 0.642*** − 0.589*** − 0.542***
[0.00] [0.00] [0.00] [0.00]
Mother’s education 0.705*** 0.674*** 0.627*** 0.591***
[0.00] [0.00] [0.00] [0.00]
Mother’s ethnicity/race 0.047 0.034 0.023 0.014
[0.39] [0.50] [0.63] [0.81]
Child parity 0.427*** 0.368*** 0.311*** 0.204**
[0.00] [0.00] [0.00] [0.04]
R-squared adjusted 0.50 0.44 0.39 0.32

Figures in brackets denote p values. Standard errors are clustered on ZIP levels

***p ≤ 0.01

**p ≤ 0.05

*p ≤ 0.10