IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 1 Baseline (2001) descriptive statistics for panel dataset

From: The effect of public employment on children’s work and school attendance: evidence from a social protection program in Argentina

	Participants		Applicants		Difference
					(part. - appl.)
	Mean	St.err.	Mean	St.err.	Value	T-stat
Outcomes of interest (2001)
Child works	0.011	(0.004)	0.008	(0.007)	−0.002	[0.29]
Child attends school	0.985	(0.005)	0.983	(0.010)	0.002	[0.20]
Attributes of children (2001)
Male	0.514	(0.018)	0.500	(0.034)	0.016	[0.43]
Age	10.86	(0.490)	10.90	(0.840)	−0.034	[0.34]
Attributes of the household (2001)
Located in a shantytown	0.051	(0.010)	0.063	(0.019)	−0.012	[0.58]
Bathroom	0.885	(0.014)	0.908	(0.023)	−0.023	[0.83]
Rooms per person	0.435	(0.012)	0.501	(0.022)	−0.066	[2.77]***
Number of children <18 in hhld	4.212	(0.098)	4.000	(0.181)	0.216	[1.07]
Single household head	0.082	(0.017)	0.079	(0.029)	0.003	[0.05]
Married household head	0.447	(0.014)	0.487	(0.025)	−0.040	[1.37]
Household size	7.093	(0.134)	6.766	(0.206)	0.327	[1.24]
Number of observations	504		164

*Significant at 10%; **Significant at 5%; ***Significant at 1%; Standard errors are in parentheses, and t-statistics are in brackets. Sample is households with children age 10–14 in which at least one adult has applied to Jefas. Data from Oct. 2001 EPH. All estimates are weighted by household size. Bolded text is used to signify impact estimates for primary outcomes.

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