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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

Appendix Table 2.

Testing Balance Between Treatment Groups

Means Differences, No Fixed Effects Differences, Controlling for Stratum Fixed Effects
PMT Community Hybrid Community - PMT Hybrid - PMT Hybrid - Community Community - PMT Hybrid - PMT Hybrid - Community
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
Average per capita expenditure (Rp. 000s) 558.576 [245.845] 550.579 [220.237] 564.295 [337.172] −7.997 (22.728) 5.719 (28.535) 13.716 (27.416) −1.331 (20.661) 11.980 (25.973) 13.312 (24.913)
Average years of education of household head among survey respondents 7.360 [2.616] 7.566 [2.644] 7.087 [2.627] 0.206 (0.256) −0.273 (0.254) −0.4785* (0.254) 0.219 (0.204) −0.255 (0.200) −0.4739** (0.209)
PMT score (calculated from Baseline survey) 12.467 [0.436] 12.519 [0.414] 12.474 [0.423] 0.052 (0.041) 0.007 (0.042) −0.045 (0.040) 0.053 (0.037) 0.011 (0.037) −0.043 (0.037)
Pct. of households that are agricultural 45.827 [34.889] 42.887 [33.789] 48.438 [35.038] −2.940 (3.343) 2.612 (3.391) 5.5515* (3.318) −3.7806* (2.060) 1.264 (2.096) 5.0442** (2.027)
Years of education of RT head 8.856 [4.018] 8.860 [4.244] 8.604 [3.796] 0.003 (0.402) −0.253 (0.379) −0.256 (0.388) 0.033 (0.352) −0.206 (0.336) −0.238 (0.335)
Log number of households 3.832 [0.491] 3.895 [0.489] 3.810 [0.460] 0.063 (0.048) −0.022 (0.046) −0.0853* (0.046) 0.057 (0.044) −0.028 (0.043) −0.0846** (0.041)
Distance to kecamatan in km 0.444 [0.652] 0.416 [0.473] 0.482 [0.431] −0.028 (0.056) 0.039 (0.054) 0.067 (0.044) −0.029 (0.050) 0.038 (0.046) 0.0673* (0.037)
Log size of villages in hectares 3.105 [1.278] 3.271 [1.197] 3.282 [1.187] 0.166 (0.121) 0.177 (0.120) 0.011 (0.115) 0.1435* (0.075) 0.1376* (0.075) −0.006 (0.076)
Religious building per household 0.0070 [0.0050] 0.0060 [0.0050] 0.0060 [0.0050] −0.0004 (0.0005) −0.0004 (0.0005) −0.0001 (0.0005) −0.0004 (0.0004) −0.0005 (0.0004) −0.0001 (0.0003)
Primary school per household 0.0030 [0.0030] 0.0030 [0.0030] 0.0030 [0.0020] 0.0001 (0.0003) −0.0002 (0.0002) −0.0003 (0.0002) 0.0000 (0.0002) −0.0002 (0.0002) −0.0003 (0.0002)
P-value from joint test 0.275 0.689 0.089 0.165 0.322 0.028

Notes: An observation is a sub-village, and therefore, there are 640 observations. Standard deviations are shown in brackets in columns (1) - (3); robust standard errors are shown in parentheses in columns (4) - (9).