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P10th | P50th | P90th | Mean | P10th | P50th | P90th | Mean | |
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (17) | (18) | (19) | (20) | |
Male | 0.00 | 0.08* | 0.18** | 0.07** | 0.09 | 0.23*** | 0.23*** | 0.22*** |
Child test age | − 0.05*** | − 0.01 | 0.00 | − 0.01 | − 0.04** | 0.00 | 0.01 | − 0.00 |
Aboriginal | −0.80** | − 0.19 | − 0.04 | −0.23* | − 0.61* | − 0.16 | 0.01 | − 0.31** |
Low birth weight | −0.01 | −0.11 | − 0.13 | −0.13* | − 0.03 | − 0.19** | − 0.33*** | −0.15** |
Breastfeed | 0.11 | 0.08 | 0.12* | 0.11*** | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.09 | 0.07 |
Mother age | 0.00 | 0.01** | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | −0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Mother NESBa | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.27** | 0.13** | 0.21*** | 0.14** | 0.23** | 0.17*** |
Mother ESBa | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.04 |
Mother has a certificateb | −0.00 | − 0.06 | −0.07 | − 0.09* | − 0.12 | − 0.06 | − 0.05 | −0.06 |
Mother has an advanced diplomab | 0.12 | −0.08 | − 0.09 | − 0.04 | −0.02 | − 0.01 | −0.11 | − 0.02 |
Mother has bachelor degreeb | 0.14 | 0.12* | 0.19 | 0.13** | 0.03 | 0.18** | 0.11 | 0.14** |
Mother has graduate diplomab | 0.13 | 0.18* | 0.14 | 0.10 | −0.00 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.12* |
Mother has postgraduate degreeb | 0.15 | 0.23** | 0.24 | 0.25*** | −0.09 | 0.18* | 0.34* | 0.18** |
Mother’s weekly working hours | −0.00 | −0.00** | − 0.00* | −0.00* | 0.00* | 0.00 | −0.00 | 0.00 |
Home environment index | −0.10 | − 0.08* | − 0.04 | −0.07* | − 0.11* | −0.10** | − 0.10 | −0.10*** |
Out-of-home activity index | 0.05 | 0.02 | −0.01 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.03 |
Having a computer at home | 0.16 | −0.03 | −0.05 | −0.01 | 0.16 | 0.01 | −0.14 | 0.03 |
Catholic schoolc | 0.06 | −0.06 | − 0.10 | − 0.02 | −0.15* | − 0.02 | −0.12 | − 0.09** |
Other independent schoolc | 0.09 | −0.02 | −0.19 | − 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.03 | −0.13 | − 0.02 |
Household size | 0.06 | 0.05 | −0.04 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.00 | −0.02 | −0.00 |
Number of siblings | −0.12 | −0.13*** | 0.01 | −0.08* | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.01 |
Number of younger siblings | 0.07 | 0.12*** | 0.08 | 0.10*** | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.04 |
Number of same age siblings | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.40*** | 0.01 | 0.18 | 0.08 |
Living with both parents | −0.04 | 0.04 | −0.01 | 0.01 | 0.10 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Living in an owned home | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.09 | −0.02 | −0.03 | −0.00 |
Household income (log) | −0.00 | 0.05 | 0.11* | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.12** | 0.08 | 0.08** |
Initial PPVT | 0.28*** | 0.24*** | 0.30*** | 0.26*** | 0.24*** | 0.20*** | 0.17*** | 0.21*** |
Initial WAI | 0.35*** | 0.26*** | 0.28*** | 0.28*** | 0.30*** | 0.31*** | 0.28*** | 0.31*** |
Observations | 2471 | 2471 | 2471 | 2471 | 2471 | 2471 | 2471 | 2471 |
R-squared | 0.14 | 0.20 | 0.11 | 0.29 | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.09 | 0.27 |