Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics.

Variable	Obs	Mean	Std. Dev.	Min	Max
School attendance (yes)	55,606	0.59	0.49	0	1
Child age	55,606	8.70	3.69	3	15
Child gender (male)	55,606	0.52	0.50	0	1
Household Expenditure (total)	55,606	39176.66	29326.41	5900.31	1317169.00
Household Expenditure (per capita)	55,606	4937.62	4012.26	1142.31	263157.10
Household size	55,606	8.51	4.08	2	55
Head gender (male)	55,606	0.92	0.27	0	1
Head education
Illiterate	55,606	0.47	0.50	0	1
Pre-Primary	55,606	0.0004	0.02	0	1
Primary	55,606	0.16	0.37	0	1
Middle	55,606	0.12	0.32	0	1
Matric/SSC	55,606	0.14	0.35	0	1
FSc/HSSC	55,606	0.053	0.22	0	1
Bachelor	55,606	0.021	0.14	0	1
MA/M.Sc. &higher	55,606	0.041	0.20	0	1
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	55,606	0.23	0.42	0	1
Punjab	55,606	0.40	0.49	0	1
Sindh	55,606	0.24	0.43	0	1
Baluchistan	55,606	0.13	0.34	0	1
Region (rural)	55,606	0.68	0.47	0	1

Source: Authors' calculations based on PSLM-2018–19.