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Table 23: SUR Regressions of Wife’s Characteristics on Husband’s Characteristics.
Full sample. Husband’s Education instead of Husband’s Log Wage.
Wife’s BMI
Wife’s Education
A. Index’s coefficients on
Husband’s Education
−0.192***
(0.032)
0.524***
(0.023)
Husband’s BMI 0.070***
(0.027)
Wife’s Age 0.024***
(0.007)
−0.041**
(0.018)
−0.007
(0.005)
R 2 0.07 0.35
Sample size 4,136
B. MRS = ratio of coefficients
Husband’s Log Wage
Husband’s BMI
−2.76**
−12.92**
(1.20)
(5.70)
Equality of ratios test Chi 2 (1) = 3.11
(p-value = 0.0779)
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
1,707 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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