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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2018 Feb;55(1):319–340. doi: 10.1007/s13524-017-0639-2

Table 4.

Impact of local homicide rate on birth weight for all births since baseline and before July, 2009 to panel women in the MxFLS3 reproductive history

Homicide Rate (1) (2) (3) (4)
9–7 Months Before Birth −120.3 −220.6* −250.2* −344.1
(63.1) (110.1) (103.0) (175.7)
6–4 Months Before Birth 31.7 67.0 55.7 −27.6
(57.3) (84.0) (86.4) (157.8)
3–1 Months Before Birth 21.8 143.1 79.8 69.4
(59.9) (97.8) (83.2) (150.6)
Sibling Sample Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sibling Fixed Effects Yes Yes Yes Yes
Municipality Fixed Effects No Yes Yes Yes
State–Year of Birth Time Trends No Yes Yes No
Pre-/Post-gestation Homicide Rates No No Yes Yes
Municipality–Year of Birth Time Trends No No No Yes
MxFLS1 Used as Exposure Location Yes Yes Yes Yes
Mean of Dependent Variable 3,249.4 3,249.4 3,249.4 3,249.4
Number of Observations 891 891 891 891
Number of Mothers 415 415 415 415

Notes: Homicide rates are per 10,000. Standard errors, clustered at the municipality level, are shown in parentheses. Regressions additionally include controls for the gender of the child, maternal characteristics (age at birth, age at birth squared, years of education, employment status, earnings per month, and marital status), household characteristics (size, per capita expenditure, and rural status), year of birth, month of birth, year of interview, month of interview, birth order, and survey wave fixed effects.

p < .10

*

p < .05