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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 22.
Published in final edited form as: Econ Hum Biol. 2017 Mar 11;26:86–95. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2017.02.002

Table 3. Estimates of coefficients of nutritional variables for Models in Group I.

Model Variables other than controls WAZ8 HAZ8 EGRA Math PPVT

C R-squared ( RC2) 0.314 0.282 0.175 0.345 0.281

0 Norm. birth weight (y0) 0.153*** (0.031) 0.134*** (0.027) -0.005 (0.032) 0.009 (0.036) -0.017 (0.025)
R2RC2
0.014 0.011 0.001 0.004 0.002

1W Weight-for-age at 1 year 0.561*** (0.022) 0.376*** (0.020) 0.119*** (0.022) 0.097*** (0.022) 0.024 (0.022)
R2 0.489 0.402 0.188 0.357 0.283

1H Height-for-age at 1 year 0.436*** (0.027) 0.478*** (0.021) 0.106*** (0.021) 0.100*** (0.017) 0.041** (0.018)
R2 0.436 0.500 0.187 0.359 0.284

2W Unpredicted weight gain (y1) 0.507*** (0.021) 0.336*** (0.018) 0.113*** (0.021) 0.090*** (0.019) 0.025 (0.020)
R2 0.482 0.394 0.189 0.357 0.283

2H Unpredicted height growth (y2) 0.418*** (0.026) 0.461*** (0.022) 0.106*** (0.022) 0.099*** (0.017) 0.043** (0.017)
R2 0.430 0.493 0.188 0.359 0.285

Notes: The variables on early childhood nutrition and on test scores in EGRA, Math and PPVT are normalized by the sample standard deviations; Number of observations: 1758; the standard errors (in parentheses, underneath the coefficients) are robust to heteroscedasticity;

***

p<0.01,

**

p<0.05,

*

p<0.1.