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. 2020 Oct 22;138:105225. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105225

Table 3.

Which Students are Doing Schoolwork?

Sample No 0.5 to 4 More than
Size Schoolwork hours 4 h Reads
Full Sample 1320 0.14 0.42 0.44 0.04
Males 611 0.14 0.44 0.42 0.03
Females 709 0.13 0.40 0.46 0.04
 test of gender equality 0.659 0.241 0.141 0.491
Grade 10 473 0.18 0.42 0.40 0.05
Grade 11 498 0.13 0.46 0.41 0.02
Grade 12 349 0.09 0.36 0.56 0.03
 test of grade equality 0.000 0.016 0.000 0.164
Lowest Wealth Quartile 311 0.19 0.41 0.40 0.05
Highest Wealth Quartile 351 0.09 0.47 0.45 0.04
 test of wealth equality 0.000 0.128 0.239 0.605
Mother's Education:high school or less 582 0.16 0.41 0.43 0.04
Mother's education:beyond high school 738 0.12 0.42 0.46 0.03
 test of educational equality 0.059 0.789 0.296 0.412
Mestizo or White 1110 0.13 0.42 0.45 0.04
Indigenous or Other 210 0.19 0.41 0.40 0.03
 test of ethnicity equality 0.028 0.901 0.162 0.896
Pichincha 915 0.13 0.40 0.47 0.03
Napo or Orellana 405 0.16 0.45 0.39 0.04
 test of provincial equality 0.158 0.077 0.006 0.348
Have Computer and Internet 775 0.09 0.42 0.49 0.03
No Internet 340 0.22 0.40 0.38 0.05
 test of technology access equality . 0.000 0.609 0.000 0.126

Notes: number of hours of schooling based on time-use question, and excludes weekends. Pichincha is the more urban province, and Napo and Orellana the more rural provinces. Tests of equality report p-values for t-tests (two groups) or F-tests (for grade equality) of equality of means across the groups.