Table A2.

Effect of droughts on women’s transactional sex in the last 12 months - robustness checks

	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
Panel Abis: Moderate drought in 2015–2016 ⋄
Ref: No drought
One to four months of drought	−0.008	0.051∗∗	0.007	−0.021	−0.022
	(0.029)	(0.025)	(0.046)	(0.057)	(0.046)
Five to six months of drought	−0.008	0.059∗∗∗	0.047	−0.006	−0.026
	(0.026)	(0.017)	(0.046)	(0.055)	(0.044)
Panel Ater: Moderate drought in 2015–2016 ⋄
Ref: No drought
One to two months of drought	0.019	0.096∗∗	0.086	0.004	−0.014
	(0.032)	(0.048)	(0.075)	(0.061)	(0.052)
Three to six months of drought	−0.010	0.056∗∗∗	0.039	−0.010	−0.027
	(0.026)	(0.016)	(0.046)	(0.055)	(0.043)

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.