Table 3.

Effect of droughts on women’s transactional sex in the last 12 months.

	Women sample
		work in		work outside
		agriculture †		agriculture ‡
	All	self	HH head	self	HH head
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
Main results
Panel A: Moderate drought in 2015–2016 ⋄
Ref: No drought
One to five months of drought	−0.010	0.048∗∗	0.006	−0.024	−0.026
	(0.029)	(0.023)	(0.045)	(0.056)	(0.045)
Six-months drought	−0.008	0.060∗∗∗	0.048	−0.006	−0.026
	(0.026)	(0.017)	(0.047)	(0.055)	(0.044)
Observations	1,863	532	389	425	624
R2	0.007	0.023	0.023	0.016	0.019
Average of transactional sex	0.052	0.057	0.064	0.062	0.041
Robustness checks
Panel B: Moderate drought in 2015–2016
Six-months drought (=1)	−0.001	0.023	0.044	0.011	−0.010
	(0.016)	(0.023)	(0.027)	(0.033)	(0.026)
Panel C: Moderate drought in 2014–2015
Six-months drought (=1)	−0.023	−0.005	−0.022	−0.079∗	−0.078∗∗∗
	(0.016)	(0.025)	(0.032)	(0.042)	(0.030)
Panel D: Severe drought in 2015–2016
Ref: No drought
One to five months of drought	−0.002	0.089∗∗∗	0.033	−0.054	−0.054
	(0.025)	(0.030)	(0.046)	(0.067)	(0.039)
Six-months drought	−0.006	0.050∗∗∗	0.034	−0.052	−0.042
	(0.022)	(0.015)	(0.034)	(0.070)	(0.041)

Clustered standard errors in parentheses. ∗ p < 0.10, ∗∗ p < 0.05, ∗∗∗ p < 0.01.

⋄ Droughts from November to April are considered.

† work in agriculture as self-employed or employee. ‡ work outside agriculture: professional/technical/managerial work, clerical, sales, household and domestic, services, skilled and unskilled manual work). Individuals who do not work are excluded from the sub-group analysis which explains that the number of observations of (1) is different from the addition of observations in (2) and (4). Occupation of the HH head was not available for all individuals.