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Table 18: SUR Regressions of Husband’s Characteristics on Wife’s Characteristics
adding height. Full sample.
A. Index’s coefficients on
Wife’s Education
Husband’s
BMI
−0.098***
(0.029)
Husband’s
Height
0.119***
(0.036)
Husband’s
Log Wage
0.072***
(0.007)
Wife’s BMI 0.053***
(0.019)
Wife’s Height 0.034
(0.023)
Husband’s Age 0.023***
(0.006)
0.004
(0.022)
0.149***
(0.029)
−0.016**
(0.007)
−0.018***
(0.004)
0.012**
(0.005)
0.018***
(0.001)
R 2 0.04 0.08 0.21
Sample size 4,251
B. MRS = ratio of coefficients
Wife’s Education
Wife’s BMI
−1.83**
(0.88)
27.20
(136.5)
−4.02***
(1.11)
Test ratio column (1) = column (2) Chi 2 (1) = 0.05
(p-value = 0.8316)
Test ratio column (1) = column (3) Chi 2 (1) = 2.20
(p-value = 0.1376)
Test ratio column (2) = column (3) Chi 2 (1) = 0.05
(p-value = 0.8191)
Note: We consider individuals who are in the normal-overweight range, BMI [18.5, 30).
Wife’s age is in the range [20, 50]. Bootstrapped standard errors (1,000 replications based
on 1,749 clusters in household head id) are reported in parentheses. All regressions include
state and year fixed effects.
*** p-value < 0.01, ** p-value < 0.05, * p-value < 0.1
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