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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 4.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2022 Dec 10;317:115607. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115607

Table A2-.

First Stage Results: Instrumenting for Income at Odd Ages with Income at Even Ages

Average Income at Odd Ages Between 0 and
18
Average Income at Even Ages Between 0 and 18 0.83***
(0.02)
Observations 49,354
First stage F Test Statistic 1370

Notes: These results use the variable very good or excellent health as the outcome of interest. These results use the variable very good or excellent health as the outcome of interest. Regressions include controls for the individual’s sex, race and age, parental characteristics summarized in Table 1, age in childhood when their parental income is first observed, cohort fixed effects, state fixed effects and state policy controls for GDP, Food Stamps, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and minimum wage rate. Standard errors are clustered at the family level to account for within family correlated error terms. Standard errors are in parentheses. All results are weighted by average childhood PSID weights. * p < 0.1, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01