Structural equation modeling for decomposing rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health: an empirical study

Table 6 GMM regressions (and OLS regressions for comparison) for the structural equation model (SEM) which includes the degree of stunting h and the weighted fractional rank deviation d as endogenous variables

	h				d
	GMM		OLS		GMM		OLS
	Coefficient	t-stat	Coefficient	t-stat	Coefficient	t-stat	Coefficient	t-stat
Constant	0.1187	13.52 ^∗∗∗	0.1240	15.32 ^∗∗∗	-0.1700	-16.01 ^∗∗∗	-0.1493	-26.15 ^∗∗∗
Age of child	0.0017	11.18 ^∗∗∗	0.0016	11.13 ^∗∗∗	−	−	−	−
Squared age of child	-0.0001	-13.48 ^∗∗∗	-0.0001	-13.55 ^∗∗∗	−	−	−	−
Sex of child	0.0143	2.41 ^∗	0.0138	2.34 ^∗	−	−	−	−
Residence type	−	−	−	−	0.2502	22.55 ^∗∗∗	0.2457	21.94 ^∗∗∗
Education of mother	-0.0022	-1.81 ^◇	-0.0033	-3.36 ^∗∗∗	0.0108	8.01 ^∗∗∗	0.0102	7.80 ^∗∗∗
Education of partner/husband	-0.0014	-1.27	-0.0024	-2.63 ^∗∗∗	0.0148	13.37 ^∗∗∗	0.0144	13.21 ^∗∗∗
Safe drinking water	−	−	−	−	0.1288	17.96 ^∗∗∗	0.1296	18.23 ^∗∗∗
Satisfactory sanitation	−	−	−	−	0.1132	12.17 ^∗∗∗	0.1108	11.97 ^∗∗∗
d	-0.0987	-3.46 ^∗∗∗	-0.0559	-4.67 ^∗∗∗	−	−	−	−
h	−	−	−	−	0.0826	1.25	-0.0621	-3.73 ^∗∗∗
R ²	0.0767		0.0796		0.3895		0.3996
N	9262		9262		9262		9262
J		0.42		−		2.69		−
Cragg-Donald F		917.43 ^∗∗∗		−		194.31 ^∗∗∗		−

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