Parents' knowledge and predictions about the age of menarche: experimental evidence from Honduras

Table 1 Regression results for self-report, modal guesses, and informed variables

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)
	SRHit	SROver	SRUnder	MGHit	MGOver	MGUnder	Informed	Misinformed
Age	-0.005*	0.003	0.002	-0.002	0.002	0.001	-0.003	0.003
Age	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.002)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.002)	(0.003)	(0.003)
Sufficient income	-0.014	-0.030	0.043	-0.081	0.073	0.008	-0.028	0.066
Sufficient income	(0.063)	(0.057)	(0.047)	(0.060)	(0.051)	(0.044)	(0.064)	(0.053)
Education (respondents)	0.007	-0.018***	0.011**	0.008	-0.012**	0.004	0.005	-0.010*
Education (respondents)	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.005)	(0.006)	(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.006)	(0.006)
Task order	0.015	-0.027	0.012	0.047	-0.076*	0.028	0.000	-0.062
Task order	(0.052)	(0.045)	(0.041)	(0.051)	(0.044)	(0.037)	(0.053)	(0.046)
Experience (at least 1 daughter age > 12)	-0.105	0.021	0.084	-0.169**	0.060	0.108**	-0.138**	0.136**
Experience (at least 1 daughter age > 12)	(0.066)	(0.057)	(0.055)	(0.066)	(0.058)	(0.053)	(0.064)	(0.063)
Female	-0.071	-0.074	0.145***	0.053	-0.096	0.043	0.002	0.019
Female	(0.095)	(0.092)	(0.054)	(0.096)	(0.092)	(0.058)	(0.097)	(0.086)
Minority	-0.267*	0.157	0.110	0.039	-0.042	0.003	-0.137	0.091
Minority	(0.142)	(0.144)	(0.106)	(0.141)	(0.132)	(0.093)	(0.141)	(0.131)
Female and Minority	0.280*	-0.139	-0.141	-0.056	0.037	0.019	0.136	-0.088
Female and Minority	(0.155)	(0.154)	(0.115)	(0.153)	(0.143)	(0.100)	(0.154)	(0.141)
Constant	0.762***	0.391***	-0.153	0.669***	0.338**	-0.007	0.590***	0.158
Constant	(0.162)	(0.151)	(0.109)	(0.164)	(0.154)	(0.096)	(0.167)	(0.148)
Observations	355	355	355	355	355	355	355	355
R-squared	0.031	0.054	0.035	0.037	0.037	0.025	0.026	0.043

Note: Columns 1 to 8 present the OLS estimations of the explanatory variables on the different outcome variables. Robust standard errors in parentheses. Asterisks represent different significance levels: *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1

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