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

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 4 Probit regression for calculating the propensity score in the cross-sectional sample

	Program participation
Male child	−0.04
	(0.09)
Children's age	−0.05
	(0.03)
Applicant's age	0.01
	(0.01)
Applicant is female	−0.38***
	(0.11)
Applicant is household head	0.19**
	(0.10)
Number of applicants in household	0.20**
	(0.08)
Lives in a shantytown	−0.07
	(0.17)
Rooms per person	−0.24
	(0.16)
Household head is married	−0.03
	(0.09)
Household head is single	−0.16
	(0.14)
Region: cuyo	−0.73***
	(0.13)
Region: noroeste	−0.19**
	(0.10)
Region: nordeste	−0.12
	(0.11)
Number of observations	2306
Number treated off support	0
Pseudo R2	0.04

*Significant at 10%; **Significant at 5%; ***Significant at 1%. Standard errors are in parentheses. Notes: Sample is children age 10–14 who have a parent who applied to Jefas. Data from Oct. 2002 EPH.