Table 3.
Impacts of fertility on physical and mental health of women of childbearing age.
| Variable | Physical health | Mental health | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (IV-Ordered probit) | (IV-2SLS) | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
| Total number of births | −0.271*** | −0.204*** | 2.990*** | 2.833*** |
| (0.067) | (0.072) | (0.806) | (0.804) | |
| Age | −0.017*** | −0.012 | ||
| (0.002) | (0.019) | |||
| Education | 0.006 | −0.073 | ||
| (0.006) | (0.059) | |||
| Smoking | 0.066* | −0.858*** | ||
| (0.040) | (0.316) | |||
| Drinking | 0.062 | 0.708** | ||
| (0.043) | (0.337) | |||
| Exercise | 0.078** | −0.400 | ||
| (0.037) | (0.297) | |||
| Hukou | 0.009 | −0.192 | ||
| (0.040) | (0.314) | |||
| Marital status | 0.108 | −0.816 | ||
| (0.074) | (0.606) | |||
| Father | 0.032 | −0.639** | ||
| (0.039) | (0.307) | |||
| Mother | −0.001 | 0.160 | ||
| (0.039) | (0.304) | |||
| Migrant experience | −0.178*** | 0.077 | ||
| (0.052) | (0.400) | |||
| Logarithm of income | 0.094*** | −0.610*** | ||
| (0.017) | (0.132) | |||
| atanhrho_12 | 0.094* | 0.089* | – | – |
| (0.054) | (0.053) | – | – | |
| Province | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| R 2 | – | – | 0.085 | 0.099 |
| Weak IV identification test | Cragg–Donald Wald F statistic | 210.909 | ||
| Kleibergen–Paap rk Wald F statistic | 206.395 | |||
| Under–identification test | Kleibergen–Paap rk LM statistic | 196.973 | ||
| F-value of the first stage | 206.390 | |||
| N | 4,245 | |||
Standard errors in the parentheses; ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1.