Table 3.

Data Balance Check

Covariate (As the Dependent Variable in a Bivariate Linear Regression or Logistic Regression)	Coefficient of Father Absence (As the Independent Variable in a Bivariate Linear Regression or Logistic Regression)
	Before Weighting	After Weighting
Child Demographics
Age	−0.004 (0.065)	−0.023 (0.080)
Gender (male=1, female=0)	0.082 (0.113)	0.083 (0.139)
Family Structure Sibship size	0.020 (0.043)	−0.005 (0.057)
Child Health Chronic disease	0.293 (0.352)	0.013 (0.402)
Child Education Retention	0.218 (0.151)	−0.187 (0.182)
Family Economic Capital Fixed assets and durable goods	−1.901** (0.645)	2.255 (2.696)
Family Cultural Capital Father’s years of education	0.267 (0.237)	−0.173 (0.311)
Mother’s years of education	−0.127 (0.227)	−0.161 (0.286)
Family Social Capital Neighbor relationship in village	−0.002 (0.030)	−0.018 (0.036)

Note: Robust standard errors in parentheses.

^*< .05

^**< .01

^***< .001