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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 2.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2022 Apr 4;93(4):1030–1043. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13765

TABLE 4.

Sensitivity to omitted variable bias

Assumed max R2 Theta High
alpha
Beta Low
gamma
1 1.78 7.32 0.95 .61
0.9 2.04 8.40 1.08 .69
0.8 2.39 9.86 1.24 .80

Note: The absolute values of the coefficient of proportionality, which indicate how strong unobserved confounders would need to be relative to measured covariates to nullify the effect of paid leave on infant brain function.