Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation: a preliminary impact evaluation

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 1 Summary statistics for households surveyed

	Mean	std. dev.	Min.	Max.
Household members	5.8	1.5	3	9
Children (age 5–18)	2.1	1.6	0	6
Farm area (hectares)	1.1	0.81	0.25	4
Rooms in house	3.7	1.1	2	7
Cement floor?	0.8	0.41	0	1
Cinderblock walls?	0.7	0.47	0	1
Metal roof?	0.73	0.45	0	1
Income/month (US$) without project	183	139	16	538
Current expenditure/month (US$)	237	121	68	575
…of which food	102	59	24	242
…of which education	37	32	0	162
…of which transportation	59	53	0	194
…of which telephone	18	13	3.2	60
…of which household exp.	21	18	4	81

Includes all 30 households interviewed, whether or not the worker from that household was allowed to travel. “Without project” means without including remittances or repatriated savings by a household member that worked in the USA via this project. Income and expenditure are for the entire household, average per month over the year prior to the interview. 2016 US$, inflated from 2012 exchange-rate $ with US CPI