Land endowment and education investment behavior of rural households: a field survey based on 887 administrative villages in 31 provinces of China

Ye Yang; Yan Xu

doi:10.1186/s40711-019-0093-1

The Journal of Chinese Sociology

Table 2 Land and education level of rural children

From: Land endowment and education investment behavior of rural households: a field survey based on 887 administrative villages in 31 provinces of China

	Model 1 with income uncontrolled		Model 2 with household background		Model 3 with dummy variable of province		Model 4 with income controlled
	B	Exp(B)	B	Exp(B)	B	Exp(B)	B	Exp(B)
Acreage of land endowment (logarithm)	− .081^*** (.027)	.922	− .0835^*** (.026)	.920	− .062^** (.027)	.940	− .057^** (.027)	.944
Demographic variables of child
Gender	.175^*** (.064)	1.191	.177^*** (.064)	1.194	.175^*** (.064)	1.191	.177^*** (.064)	1.193
Age	.003 (.009)	1.003	.003 (.009)	1.003	.001 (.009)	1.001	− .002(.009)	− .033
Demographic variables of household
Income per capita (logarithm)							.104^** (.040)	1.110
Male proportion	− .077 (.147)	.926	− .049 (.148)	.952	− .014 (.148)	.986	− .011 (.150)	.989
Household size	.110^*** (.025)	1.116	.083^*** (.025)	1.087	.103^*** (.025)	1.109	.113^*** (.026)	1.120
Over-60 proportion	− .176 (.185)	.839	− .194 (.185)	0.824	− .287 (.186)	.751	− .343^* (.188)	.710
Under-18 proportion	− 1.067^*** (.195)	.344	− .997^*** (.196)	0.369	− .975^*** (.196)	.377	− .974^*** (.199)	.378
Migrant proportion	.912^*** (.102)	2.489	.588^*** (.117)	1.800	.525^*** (.118)	1.691	.474^*** (.120)	1.606
Medicare insurance	− .145 (.118)	.865	− .180 (.118)	0.835	− .161 (.118)	− .851	−.155 (.118)	.856
Household background variables
Parents’ average education			.035^*** (.007)	1.036	.031^*** (.007)	1.032	.031^*** (.007)	1.031
Managers and professionals			.355^*** (.083)	1.426	.320^*** (.083)	1.377	.314^*** (.084)	1.369
Commercial and business services			.313^*** (.071)	1.368	.283^*** (.071)	1.327	.279^*** (.072)	1.321
Province
Eastern					.291^*** (.070)	1.338	.220^*** (.075)	1.246
Central					− .047 (.071)	.954	.068 (.072)	1.070
Obs	4198		4198		4198		4099
Pseudo R²	.012		.016		.018		.019
LM	155.64		205.84		233.33		230.68
LM logarithm	− 6303.367		− 6278.270		− 6264.522		− 6115.884

Note: The figures in parentheses are standard errors. *p < 0.1, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01

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