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Table 4 Relative magnitude of estimates

From: Association between early childhood exposure to malaria and children’s pre-school development: evidence from the Zambia early childhood development project

 

Weight

Height

Task Orientation

Socio-emotional

Receptive Language

Fine Motor Skills

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Full Sample

      

Eliminating malariaa

0.40

2.43

0.85

0.91

0.09

−0.21

 

(4.301 -3.492)

(8.172 -3.316)

(1.673 -0.024)

(2.04 -0.217)

(0.93 -0.747)

(−0.784 0.369)

Increasing educationb

0.42

1.13

0.24

0.09

0.23

0.23

 

(−1.309 0.98)

(−1.484 0.543)

(0.118 0.358)

(−0.007 0.2)

(0.116 0.351)

(0.098 0.354)

Increasing wealthc

2.10

−0.19

0.31

0.38

0.12

0.39

 

(−0.361 4.569)

(−2.276 1.903)

(0.108 0.508)

(0.204 0.565)

(−0.07 0.315)

(0.177 0.597)

Rural Sample

      

Eliminating malariaa

0.53

2.24

0.58

1.97

−1.03

−0.38

 

(7.949 -6.886)

(6.409 -1.93)

(1.035 0.129)

(2.373 1.57)

(−0.562 -1.498)

(−0.87 0.104)

Increasing educationb

0.60

2.61

0.37

0.11

0.31

0.34

 

(−2.17 3.367)

(1.05 4.179)

(0.191 0.554)

(−0.049 0.267)

(0.128 0.495)

(0.149 0.531)

Increasing wealthc

0.31

0.38

0.32

0.47

0.11

0.27

 

(−1.247 6.701)

(−2.62 1.941)

(0.031 0.613)

(0.212 0.726)

(−0.168 0.392)

(−0.02 0.564)

  1. aThe numbers reported in this row correspond to the co-efficients reported in Tables 2 and3 multiplied by −0.72, the highest level of malaria parasitaemia the sample.
  2. bThe numbers reported in this row correspond to coefficients estimated for highest education in the household from the specifications reported in Tables 2 and3 multiplied by 7, equivalent to increasing education from 0 to completed primary schooling.
  3. cThe numbers reported in this row correspond to the estimated impact achievable by moving a child from a household in the poorest wealth quintile to a household in the top quintile as estimated in the empirical models underlying Tables 2 and3.
  4. 95% Confidence intervals in parenthesis.