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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 5.
Published in final edited form as: Am Econ Rev. 2012 Jun;102(4):1206–1240. doi: 10.1257/aer.102.4.1206

Table 10.

Do community meetings reflect broadly shared preferences?

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
Rank Correlations with:
Attend Meeting (Meeting Data) Attend Meeting (HH Data) Female Attends (Meeting Data) Mis-target Consumption Community (excl sub-village head) Sub-village Head Self-Assessment
Community treatment 0.349*** (0.042) 0.028 (0.021) −0.089** (0.045) 0.232*** (0.040) 0.180*** (0.052) 0.072 (0.044)
Hybrid treatment 0.020 (0.029) 0.353*** (0.041) 0.008 (0.017) 0.026 (0.021) −0.089*** (0.044) 0.130*** (0.039) 0.064 (0.051) 0.046 (0.044)
Day meeting treatment −0.021 (0.029) 0.013 (0.033) 0.104*** (0.017) 0.008 (0.016) 0.019 (0.033) 0.004 (0.029) 0.055 (0.038) 0.014 (0.033)
Elite treatment −0.064** (0.029) −0.300*** (0.033) −0.085*** (0.017) 0.005 (0.016) −0.004 (0.033) −0.023 (0.029) 0.034 (0.038) −0.017 (0.033)
10 Poorest treatment 0.022 (0.029) 0.023 (0.034) −0.010 (0.018) −0.006 (0.016) 0.031 (0.033) 0.047 (0.029) 0.044 (0.038) 0.062* (0.032)
Observations 431 287 428 5753 640 640 640 637
Mean in PMT treatment 0.110 0.300 0.451 0.506 0.456 0.343

Notes: For column (3), the dependent variable is the percentage of households in the village in which a female attends the meeting, using data collected from the meeting attendance lists.

***

p<0.01

**

p<0.05

*

p<0.1