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 8 Linear regressions for work and school attendance

	Works	Attends school
Jefas participant	−0.001	0.129
	(0.056)	(0.079)
Treatment*male applicant	0.022*	0.005
	(0.013)	(0.021)
Treatment*female child	0.017	−0.032
	(0.015)	(0.020)
Treatment*child age	0.002	−0.008
	(0.006)	(0.007)
Child is female	−0.023*	0.047**
	(0.014)	(0.018)
Child's age	0.009*	−0.015**
	(0.005)	(0.006)
Applicant's age	0.000	−0.001
	(0.000)	(0.001)
Applicant is male	−0.030**	0.004
	(0.015)	(0.020)
Applicant is household head	0.011*	−0.005
	(0.008)	(0.011)
Number of applicants in household	0.021**	−0.001
	(0.019)	(0.010)
Lives in a shantytown	0.006	−0.007
	(0.012)	(0.019)
Rooms per person	−0.027**	0.080***
	(0.010)	(0.020)
Household head is married	−0.006	0.022**
	(0.006)	(0.010)
Household head is single	−0.015*	0.004
	(0.008)	(0.016)
Constant	−0.085*	1.093***
	(0.050)	(0.065)
R2	0.04	0.04
Number of observations	1535	1535

*Significant at 10%; **Significant at 5%; ***Significant at 1%. Standard errors are in brackets, and are robust to clustering at the household level. Note: Sample is children age 10–14, who have a parent who has applied to Jefas. Data from Oct. 2002 EPH. Both regressions include region dummies. Bolded text is used to signify impact estimates for primary outcomes.