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Table 8 Marginal effects using Poisson estimations

From: Jobs and kids: female employment and fertility in China

Variables

Marginal effect

Preferred number of children

Actual number of children

Estimation model

Poisson estimation

Female employment status

    

  Not employed (reference)

    

  Employed

−0.069

(0.040)*

−0.119

(0.036)***

Estimation model

Poisson estimation with two-stage residual inclusion

Female employment status

    

  Not employed (reference)

    

  Employed

−0.352

(0.165)**

−0.498

(0.145)***

Residual from the first stage

0.174

(0.101)*

0.238

(0.091)***

  1. Note: standard deviations are reported in parentheses.
  2. * significant at the 10% level; ** significant at the 5% level; *** significant at the 1% level.