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Table 3 Comparison of sample with excluded observations

From: Intergenerational transmission of education: the relative importance of transmission channels

Variable

Full sample

Used sample

Diff.

Diff/SD

P value

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Education index

1.000

(0.331)

1.037

(0.310)

–0.037

–0.111

0.000

Log consumption

9.849

(0.641)

9.829

(0.617)

0.020

0.031

0.081

Father’s education

6.416

(4.430)

6.348

(4.362)

0.068

0.015

0.424

Mother’s education

5.941

(4.017)

5.725

(3.806)

0.216

0.054

0.003

Father’s ability

100.620

(13.907)

100.614

(13.711)

0.006

0.000

0.982

Mother’s ability

97.947

(13.832)

97.795

(13.469)

0.151

0.011

0.557

Ability of the child

100.292

(13.621)

101.016

(12.910)

–0.724

–0.053

0.003

Mother’s age

40.713

(7.586)

40.300

(7.139)

0.413

0.054

0.003

Father’s age

44.450

(8.645)

43.856

(7.876)

0.594

0.069

0.000

Age

18.104

(3.914)

17.321

(3.696)

0.783

0.200

0.000

Number of children

1.157

(1.278)

1.077

(1.236)

0.080

0.063

0.000

Number of teenagers

1.469

(1.186)

1.676

(1.150)

–0.207

–0.175

0.000

Indigenous father

0.160

 

0.172

 

–0.011

 

0.126

Indigenous mother

0.135

 

0.139

 

–0.004

 

0.559

Gender

0.510

 

0.491

 

0.019

 

0.033

Rural area

0.429

 

0.483

 

–0.054

 

0.000

First born

0.371

 

0.429

 

–0.059

 

0.000

  1. The ‘full sample’ includes all individuals in the age range of the study with non-missing values. The column ‘Diff/SD’ refers to the difference between the two samples divided by the standard deviation of the full sample