Table 10 Estimation results for the first-stage regression of 2SLS models.

From: The impact of women’s non-farm employment on child quantity and quality

 

Women’s non-farm employment

  
 

(1)

(2)

(3)

Distance to the nearest county

−0.001***

−0.002***

−0.002***

 

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

Proportion of female non-farm work in the village

0.076***

0.068**

0.068**

 

(0.019)

(0.028)

(0.028)

Wife’s age

−0.004

−0.002

−0.002

 

(0.006)

(0.002)

(0.002)

Wife’s education

0.006

0.018***

0.018***

 

(0.005)

(0.002)

(0.002)

Wife’s health status

0.011

0.001

0.000

 

(0.016)

(0.013)

(0.013)

Wife’s public pension

−0.015

0.013

0.013

 

(0.031)

(0.029)

(0.029)

Wife’s health insurance

0.014

0.010

0.010

 

(0.016)

(0.024)

(0.024)

Husband’s age

0.009**

−0.004**

−0.004**

 

(0.004)

(0.002)

(0.002)

Husband’s education

−0.004

0.010***

0.010***

 

(0.006)

(0.002)

(0.002)

Husband’s health status

−0.013

−0.017

−0.017

 

(0.015)

(0.013)

(0.013)

Husband’s public pension

0.040

0.028

0.028

 

(0.031)

(0.030)

(0.030)

Husband’s health insurance

−0.013

−0.064**

−0.064**

 

(0.033)

(0.028)

(0.028)

Gender of first child

−0.178**

−0.030*

−0.030**

 

(0.075)

(0.015)

(0.015)

Land renting-out

0.116***

0.177***

0.173***

 

(0.021)

(0.034)

(0.034)

Transfer income

−0.005***

−0.003

−0.003

 

(0.002)

(0.002)

(0.002)

Household assets

0.009*

0.035***

0.035***

 

(0.005)

(0.006)

(0.006)

Children’s education: elementary school

−0.012

−0.012

 

(0.030)

(0.030)

Children’s education: junior school

−0.007

−0.008

 

(0.032)

(0.032)

Children’s education: senior school

0.064

0.064

 

(0.069)

(0.069)

Number of children already born

−0.006

−0.006

 

(0.007)

(0.007)

Proportion of male children in households

0.052**

0.052**

 

(0.025)

(0.025)

Individual FE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Year FE

Yes

Yes

Yes

R2

0.648

0.897

0.897

First-stage F statistic

17.14

11.27

11.22

Observations

14,265

4023

4021

  1. ***, **, and * indicate significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively. Robust standard errors are presented in parentheses. Models (1), (2), and (3) correspond, respectively, to the dependent variables of number of children, Chinese test grades, and mathematics test grades in the second-stage regressions.