The gender gap in relation to happiness and preferences in married couples after childbirth: evidence from a field experiment in rural Ghana

Table 3 Results of multivariate regression analyses

	A. Logistic regression				B. Ordered-logistic regression
	If wife’s SWB > husband’s SWB				Wife’s SWB-husband’s SWB
Trust: absolute gap	6.22 (0.01)**				4.77 (0.09)*
Trust: wife > husband	−0.22 (0.81)				−0.25 (0.59)
Reciprocity: absolute gap		2.80 (0.01)***				1.12 (0.60)
Reciprocity: wife > husband		0.89 (0.14)				0.48 (0.25)
Altruism: absolute gap			6.38 (0.26)				6.38 (0.11)
Altruism: wife > husband			−0.11 (0.92)				0.03 (0.97)
Risk lovingness: absolute gap				3.81 (0.07)*				3.72 (0.07)*
Risk lovingness: wife > husband				0.59 (0.58)				0.64 (0.29)

Covariates: age, education level, religion of both the wife and the husband, years of marriage, number of children, asset quartile; estimated coefficients constitute adjusted odds ratios for “A. logistic regression” and adjusted proportional odds ratios for “B. ordered-logistic regression”; p value in parenthesis
*p < 0.1; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01

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