Table 3 OLM: the assessment of fertility decline performance of provincial leaders.

From: Facilitating fertility decline through economic development: a principal-agent analysis of local bureaucratic incentives in China’s fertility transition

 

(9)

(10)

(11)

(12)

 

Baseline

Linear performance

Curve performance

Vs. Predecessor

Lagged TFR

−0.595*** (0.153)

−0.288+ (0.173)

−0.326+ (0.176)

−0.822*** (0.244)

TFR decline

0.012* (0.005)

0.026*** (0.005)

0.028*** (0.006)

 

(TFR decline)2 (*104)

  

−3.759* (1.566)

 

TFR decline (vs. predecessor)

   

0.024* (0.011)

Age (59+ = 1)

 

−1.511*** (0.193)

−1.470*** (0.194)

−1.567*** (0.253)

Per capita GDP growth

 

0.012* (0.052)

0.012* (0.051)

0.024** (0.009)

CPI growth

 

−1.980** (0.673)

−1.819** (0.675)

−4.035*** (1.115)

Education (college+ = 1)

 

0.716* (0.298)

0.660* (0.300)

0.673+ (0.406)

Industrialization growth

 

−0.084 (1.289)

−0.202 (1.278)

0.068 (1.782)

Social investment growth

 

−0.441* (0.218)

−0.379+ (0.216)

−0.365 (0.354)

Electricity growth

 

0.216 (0.188)

0.222 (0.186)

0.083 (0.301)

Agri-machine energy growth

 

−0.462 (0.654)

−0.516 (0.658)

−0.600 (0.839)

/cut1

−0.350 (0.734)

−1.169 (0.955)

−1.211 (0.951)

−2.183 (1.535)

/cut2

1.661* (0.746)

1.120 (0.973)

1.089 (0.968)

0.321 (1.552)

Province-fixed

YES

YES

YES

YES

Obs

1086

1086

1086

743

Wald λ2

23,069

15,092

15,458

18,787

Likelyhood

−820.1

−745

−742

−480.9

  1. Notes: (1) Ordinal dependent variable Turnover: 0 = termination, 1 = sideway move, 2 = promotion; (2) Robust standard errors in parentheses; ***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, +p < 0.1.