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 9 Doubly-robust child-level estimates

	Impact estimate	T-stat
Works	−0.010	1.88*
Attends school	0.018	1.73*
Male child	−0.009	0.37
Child's age	−0.011	0.15
Applicant's age	−0.009	0.02
Applicant is male	−0.005	0.29
Applicant is household head	0.001	0.05
Number of applicants in household	0.000	0.01
Lives in a shantytown	−0.004	0.31
Rooms per person	0.001	0.06
Household head is married	−0.012	0.55
Household head is single	−0.004	0.33
Number of observations

*Significant at 10%; **Significant at 5%; ***Significant at 1%.
Notes: Sample is children age 10–14; data from 2002 EPH. Estimates for independent variables are calculated using a doubly-robust model in which the variable of interest is used to calculate the propensity score only. Bolded text is used to signify impact estimates for primary outcomes.