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Table 3 Unconditional Recentred Influence Function (RIF) quantile regression results for rural and urban households in Nepal

From: Rural-urban disparities in child nutrition in Bangladesh and Nepal

Dependent variable: HAZ score

 

RURAL

URBAN

 

OLS

Quantiles

OLS

Quantiles

  

10

25

50

75

90

 

10

25

50

75

90

Female gender of child

−0.01

−0.03

−0.06

0.02

0.02

0.09

0.02

0.08

0.01

0.02

0.01

−0.09

(0.04)

(0.06)

(0.05)

(0.05)

(0.06)

(0.08)

(0.07)

(0.12)

(0.11)

(0.08)

(0.10)

(0.14)

Age of child

−0.23***

−0.09***

−0.12***

−0.22***

−0.31***

−0.41***

−0.27***

−0.23***

−0.24***

−0.29***

−0.26***

−0.30***

(0.02)

(0.03)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.03)

(0.04)

(0.03)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.06)

Child vaccinated

0.21***

0.16**

0.13**

0.20***

0.29***

0.39***

0.29***

−0.03

0.19*

0.24**

0.45***

0.62***

(0.05)

(0.08)

(0.06)

(0.06)

(0.08)

(0.12)

(0.09)

(0.14)

(0.11)

(0.11)

(0.13)

(0.20)

Age of mother

0.00

−0.01

−0.01**

−0.01

0.00

0.01

0.01

−0.02

0.00

0.02**

0.01

0.01

(0.00)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.00)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.02)

Mother’s working status

−0.17***

−0.11

−0.14***

−0.12**

−0.14**

−0.29***

−0.12

−0.12

−0.10

0.03

−0.22**

−0.23

(0.05)

(0.07)

(0.05)

(0.06)

(0.07)

(0.11)

(0.08)

(0.14)

(0.11)

(0.10)

(0.11)

(0.17)

Mother’s education (yrs)

0.05***

0.03**

0.04***

0.05***

0.05***

0.08***

0.06***

0.04*

0.06***

0.07***

0.06***

0.06**

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.02)

Husband’s education (yrs)

0.01**

0.03***

0.02*

0.00

0.01

0.01

0.00

0.01

0.03*

0.01

−0.02

−0.01

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.02)

Wealth index

0.22***

0.17***

0.22***

0.31***

0.30***

0.16

0.15***

0.10

0.05

0.15***

0.24***

0.16

(0.04)

(0.05)

(0.04)

(0.05)

(0.07)

(0.11)

(0.04)

(0.07)

(0.05)

(0.05)

(0.06)

(0.10)

Extended family dummy

−0.01

0.04

0.02

−0.02

−0.05

−0.04

−0.01

−0.06

−0.14

−0.11

0.04

−0.02

(0.04)

(0.07)

(0.05)

(0.05)

(0.06)

(0.09)

(0.07)

(0.13)

(0.10)

(0.09)

(0.10)

(0.15)

Dependency ratio

−0.06**

−0.05

−0.02

−0.07***

−0.05

−0.08*

−0.04

−0.14

−0.14*

−0.06

0.05

0.05

(0.02)

(0.05)

(0.03)

(0.03)

(0.03)

(0.04)

(0.05)

(0.10)

(0.07)

(0.05)

(0.06)

(0.09)

No. of children(<5 yrs)

−0.03

−0.06

−0.08*

−0.04

0.03

0.08

−0.05

−0.09

−0.04

0.00

−0.04

−0.02

(0.03)

(0.06)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.07)

(0.06)

(0.13)

(0.09)

(0.07)

(0.07)

(0.11)

Constant

−1.32***

−3.11***

−2.22***

−1.29***

−0.44***

0.24

−1.44***

−2.33***

−2.20***

−2.00***

−0.76**

−0.01

(0.13)

(0.22)

(0.18)

(0.17)

(0.19)

(0.28)

(0.24)

(0.48)

(0.32)

(0.29)

(0.34)

(0.46)

N

4051

4051

4051

4051

4051

4051

1168

1168

1168

1168

1168

1168

R-sq

0.15

0.03

0.06

0.11

0.12

0.09

0.23

0.07

0.12

0.18

0.16

0.09

adj. R-sq

0.15

0.03

0.06

0.11

0.11

0.08

0.22

0.06

0.12

0.17

0.16

0.08

  1. Figures in brackets are standard errors: Asterisks denote level of significance -***, ** and * denote significance at 1%, 5% and 10% level of significance respectively.