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EMPIRICAL APPENDIX
DUMMIES FOR PARENTS HUMAN CAPITAL
ISSN: 2247-6172;
ISSN-L: 2247-6172
Review of Applied Socio- Economic Research
(Volume 5, Issue 1/ 2013), pp. 31
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Variable ME (SE) ME (SE) ME (SE)
(Model 1) (Model 2) (Model 3)
Chief wage earner profession/job
Employer 10 employees 0.59*** -0.111 0.58*** -0.111 0.57*** -0.111
Employer less than 10 employees 0.24*** -0.097 0.23*** -0.097 0.26*** -0.082
Professional worker lawyer, 0.33*** -0.083 0.32*** -0.083 0.35*** -0.065
Supervisory - office worker: 0.08 -0.122 0.07 -0.122 0.12 -0.115
Non-manual - office worker: 0.05 -0.089 0.04 -0.089 0.09 -0.081
Foreman and supervisor -0.02 -0.111 -0.02 -0.111 0.01 -0.104
Skilled manual worker -0.03 -0.065 -0.03 -0.065 -0.01 -0.055
Semi-skilled manual worker -0.09 -0.056 -0.08 -0.056 -0.06 -0.047
Unskilled manual worker -0.08 -0.059 -0.07 -0.059 -0.04 -0.049
Farmer: has own farm 0.37*** -0.138 0.37*** -0.138 0.38*** -0.136
Agricultural worker -0.17** -0.047 -0.16 -0.047 -0.16** -0.048
Member of armed forces 0.07 -0.146 0.07 -0.146 0.11 -0.136
Never had a job -0.04 -0.184 -0.04 -0.183 -0.03 -0.191
No. Of observations
1,684 1,684 1,684
Pseudo R-squared
0.06 0.06 0.06
Log-Likelihood
-903.16 -904.93 -906.82
Note: For chief wage earner profession/job dummies “other” type is the reference category. Standard errors
are corrected for heteroskedasticity. The symbols ***, ** and * denote that the coefficient is significantly
different from zero at the 1, 5 and 10 percent levels respectively
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