Table 2.

 Evidence on evacuee selection: regressing an indicator variable for whether evacuees in household (value of 1 if yes) on family background characteristics

Variables	All households			Households with >1 sibling
	Control mean	Dependent variable: evacuee status of household		Control mean	Dependent variable: evacuee status of household
Parental education (past primary school=1)	0.078	−0.015 (0.004)		0.078	−0.019
No of children in family as of 1940	1.31	0.017 (<0.001)		1.73	0.014 (0.001)
Swedish speaking	0.069	0.046 (0.007)		0.062	0.069 (0.012)
Occupation (blue collar worker=1)	0.308	0.038 (0.003)		0.294	0.052 (0.004)
No of observations	37 193	38 765		17 993	19 027

Sample means of background characteristics for control group of households without evacuees and linear probability model estimates for all households are reported with robust standard errors of estimates in parentheses.