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Table 4 Which covariates explain most of the urban-rural gap in malnutrition in Yemen?

From: Regional inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis

Variables E(D = 0) C CE 1 0.5 0.294 *
Wealth index 49.172 −10.087 33.222 82.394 65.783 58.927 50.304
Child is twin (yes) −0.55 0.315 0.224 −0.326 −0.438 −0.484 −0.431
Mother’s malnourished (yes) 1.313 −1.389 0.793 2.107 1.71 1.546 1.553
Pregnancy (yes) −0.114 −3.123 0.694 0.58 0.233 0.089 0.105
more than one child under five −0.331 −0.219 0.062 −0.269 −0.3 −0.313 −0.297
Mother’s age (20–24) 0.032 −1.995 −0.016 0.017 0.024 0.028 0.029
Mother’s age (25–29) 0.645 −0.103 −0.011 0.634 0.639 0.641 0.677
Mother’s age (30–34) 0.076 −2.793 −0.029 0.047 0.062 0.068 0.07
Mother’s age (35–39) −0.231 −2.035 0.093 −0.138 −0.185 −0.204 −0.209
Mother’s age (40–44) −0.302 0.465 −0.057 −0.359 −0.33 −0.319 −0.331
Mother’s age (45–49) −0.891 −0.461 0.245 −0.645 −0.768 −0.819 −0.841
Access to clean water (yes) 0.442 4.305 −0.835 −0.393 0.025 0.197 0.179
Child sex (female) −0.112 1.711 −0.043 −0.155 −0.134 −0.125 −0.128
Child age (one year) 0.498 5.436 −0.144 0.354 0.426 0.455 0.452
Child age (two years) 0.936 13.39 −0.404 0.532 0.734 0.817 0.813
Child age (three years) −1.039 7.489 0.261 −0.777 −0.908 −0.962 −0.958
Child age (four years) −2.187 6.607 0.492 −1.695 −1.941 −2.043 −2.036
Mother’s education (primary) 0.449 −0.188 −0.128 0.32 0.385 0.411 0.313
Mother’s education (fundamental) 1.091 3.25 1.599 2.691 1.891 1.561 1.63
Mother’s education (diploma before secondary) 0.183 0.019 0.109 0.291 0.237 0.215 0.201
Mother’s education ( secondary) 1.786 0.208 0.507 2.293 2.039 1.935 1.987
Mother’s education ( diploma after secondary) 0.102 0.076 0.154 0.256 0.179 0.147 0.201
Mother’s education ( university) 3.392 −0.093 −1.077 2.315 2.854 3.076 2.386
Received prenatal care 2.772 1.955 0.599 3.37 3.071 2.948 2.671
Mother’s occupation (professional) 1.632 −0.323 −1.149 0.483 1.057 1.294 0.881
Mother’s occupation (sales) 0.097 −0.098 −0.356 −0.259 −0.081 −0.007 −0.138
Mother’s occupation (agriculture) 0.249 7.367 −7.273 −7.024 −3.387 −1.887 0.193
Mother’s occupation (manual) −0.018 0.244 0.118 0.1 0.041 0.017 0.014
have a toilet (yes) 0.789 −7.191 −5.602 −4.813 −2.012 −0.856 −0.231
Risky birth interval (yes) 1.59 1.959 −0.457 1.133 1.361 1.455 1.446
_cons 0 −50.465 0 0 0 0 0
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Health Economics Review

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