Variables

Child age reported age = 1 and 0 otherwise

Maternal fertility

Coefficients

(1)

Marginal effects (2)

Coefficients

(3)

Age of the child

0.009

0.0004

0.014**

(0.008)

(0.0004)

(0.006)

Age of the square child

−0.015

−0.001

−0.019**

(0.013)

(0.001)

(0.009)

Girl

0.135**

0.007**

−0.042

(0.068)

(0.003)

(0.049)

Child with diarrhoea

−0.117

−0.006

0.081

(0.199)

(0.010)

(0.144)

Age of the mother

−0.013

−0.001

0.499***

(0.031)

(0.002)

(0.023)

Mother’s age squared

0.024

0.001

−0.773***

(0.046)

(0.002)

(0.034)

Mother with primary education

−0.025

−0.001

−0.083

(0.073)

(0.004)

(0.052)

Mother with secondary education and above

0.393*

0.014**

0.146

(0.226)

(0.005)

(0.136)

Normal mother’s weight

−0.169

−0.010

−0.029

(0.134)

(0.009)

(0.111)

(0.0771)

(0.004)

(0.057)

Average household

−0.082

−0.004

0.0732

(0.087)

(0.005)

(0.064)

Rich household

0.091

0.004

-0.0186

(0.091)

(0.004)

(0.063)

Rural areas

0.003

0.0001

0.076

(0.084)

(0.004)

(0.060)

Non-Self-Cluster mean selection

6.569***

0.325***

(0.373)

(0.025)

Non-Self-Cluster mean fertility

0.810***

(0.047)

Constant

−3.796***

6.439***

(0.683)

(0.540)

Number of observation

8921

8140

Log pseudolikelihood

−754.38038

Predicted probability of the model

0.97

R²/Pseudo-R²

0.1637

0.230

F-stat [df; p-value]/wald chi² [dl-p-value]

333.92 [12; 0.0000]

102.86 [12; 0.0000]