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Table 4 Unsafe water’s effects on males’ years of education (19–21-year-olds) and days of school attended (6–10-year-olds)

From: Groundwater arsenic and education attainment in Bangladesh

Variable

Years of education

Days of school attended

Regression

1

2

3

4

Unsafe water

−.501a (0.134)

−.565a (0.167)

−.119b (0.053)

−.170a (0.067)

Unsafe*drink safe

0.494a (0.140)

0.497a (0.141)

0.107c (0.056)

0.105c (0.056)

10–50-ppb arsenic

−0.158 (0.150)

−0.057 (0.056)

10–50 ppb*drink safe

0.140 (0.150)

−0.027 (0.053)

R 2

0.3294

0.3296

0.0489

0.0491

# observations

4511

4511

13,556

13,556

  1. Samples: youths in the 2006 MICS with well contaminations from the 1998/2000 NHS
  2. aStatistically significant at 0.01 level
  3. bStatistically significant at 0.05 level
  4. cStatistically significant at 0.10 level