Gender equity in vision care seeking behavior among caregivers: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in rural China

Table 4 Difference between male and female children at baseline in left-behind families and non-left-behind families

	Left-Behind Children				Non Left-Behind Children
	Female	Male	Difference	p-value	Female	Male	Difference	p-value
Variable	(1)	(2)	(1)–(2)	(1)–(2)	(1)	(2)	(1)–(2)	(1)–(2)
1. Baseline visual acuity (LogMAR)	0.667	0.601	0.067**	0.025**	0.644	0.625	0.019*	0.058*
1. Baseline visual acuity (LogMAR)	(0.020)	(0.021)			(0.007)	(0.007)
2. Family has taken student to a vision exam (1 = yes)	0.301	0.279	0.022	0.718	0.308	0.355	− 0.047**	0.034**
2. Family has taken student to a vision exam (1 = yes)	(0.042)	(0.044)			(0.015)	(0.016)
3. Student has glasses at baseline (1 = yes)	0.171	0.173	−0.002	0.963	0.180	0.198	−0.018	0.325
3. Student has glasses at baseline (1 = yes)	(0.034)	(0.037)			(0.013)	(0.013)
4. Student can see the blackboard from his/her seat (1 = yes)	0.520	0.442	0.078	0.243	0.523	0.498	0.025	0.294
	(0.045)	(0.049)			(0.017)	(0.017)
5. Student blinks eyes or turns head to see things clearly (1 = yes)	0.618	0.712	−0.094	0.139	0.620	0.628	−0.008	0.721
	(0.044)	(0.045)			(0.016)	(0.016)
6. Myopia knowledge index (Score 0–9)	2.821	3.173	−0.352	0.157	2.914	3.175	−0.260***	0.001***
6. Myopia knowledge index (Score 0–9)	(0.160)	(0.192)			(0.058)	(0.058)
7. Student thinks he/she is myopic, 1 = yes	0.463	0.471	−0.008	0.908	0.437	0.481	−0.044*	0.061*
7. Student thinks he/she is myopic, 1 = yes	(0.045)	(0.049)			(0.016)	(0.017)
Number of Observations	n = 123	n = 104			n = 1033	n = 991

Notes: ***, **, and * indicate significance at the 1, 5, and 10% critical level. Standard errors are clustered at school level

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