Appendix Table 2.
Attrition analysis of key household indicators
| Treatment | Control | Difference | ||||||
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| Attritors (1) |
Non- attritors (2) |
P- value (3) |
Attritors (4) |
Non- attritors (5) |
P- value (6) |
Col(1)- Col(4) (7) |
P- value (8) |
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| Head female (%) | 78.6 | 82.6 | 0.43 | 69.2 | 84.3 | 0.01 | −9.3 | 0.19 |
| Head age (%) | 61.19 | 58.2 | 0.43 | 54.5 | 56.4 | 0.56 | −6.7 | 0.26 |
| Head ever attended school (%) | 30.0 | 33.5 | 0.66 | 35.2 | 31.8 | 0.62 | 5.2 | 0.63 |
| Head literate (%) | 21.4 | 19.3 | 0.72 | 28.6 | 20.3 | 0.3 | 7.1 | 0.48 |
| Head widow (%) | 50.0 | 43.7 | 0.49 | 41.8 | 41.3 | 0.94 | −8.2 | 0.50 |
| Head never married (%) | 1.4 | 2.8 | 0.38 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 0.33 | 3.0 | 0.18 |
| Per capita expenditure (MWK) | 65148.5 | 45,651.3 | 0.01 | 51,728.9 | 43,369.1 | 0.24 | −13,419.6 | 0.18 |
| Expenditure per cap < poverty line (%) | 80.0 | 89.7 | 0.08 | 89.0 | 91.7 | 0.54 | 9.0 | 0.20 |
| Numbers of persons in household | 3.3 | 4.6 | 0.00 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 0.02 | 0.7 | 0.16 |
| Eat only one meal/day (%) | 20.0 | 22.2 | 0.70 | 24.2 | 20.1 | 0.32 | 4.2 | 0.53 |
| Cultivate land (%) | 88.6 | 96.0 | 0.27 | 94.5 | 95.7 | 0.4 | 5.9 | 0.41 |
| Sell Crops (%) | 16.4 | 21.9 | 0.15 | 25.6 | 21.1 | 0.39 | 9.2 | 0.11 |
| Own an enterprise (%) | 18.6 | 26.3 | 0.41 | 22.0 | 23.6 | 0.75 | 3.4 | 0.71 |
| Work ganyu labor (%) | 45.7 | 58.0 | 0.17 | 48.4 | 60.0 | 0.15 | 2.6 | 0.83 |
| Work wage labor (%) | 2.9 | 4.5 | 0.14 | 7.7 | 5.6 | 0.45 | 4.8 | 0.21 |
| Credit constrained-loans (%) | 38.6 | 45.5 | 0.35 | 44.0 | 43.7 | 0.97 | 5.4 | 0.59 |
| Credit constrained on purchases on credit (%) | 75.8 | 68.2 | 0.17 | 67.4 | 70.1 | 0.61 | −8.4 | 0.33 |
Notes: No significant differences found between T and C groups. P-values based on T-tests with standard errors clustered at the VC level. Overall N for control is 1,853 (In study/non-attritors=1,762; Attritors=91). Overall N for treated is 1,678 (In study/non-attritors=1,608; Attritors=70).