Table 3.

State-level COVID-19 cases and household food security outcomes.

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
	Skip a meal	Ran out of food	Went without eating for a whole day	Food insecurity index
Post dummy (2020 round)	0.393***	0.230***	0.105**	0.642***
	(0.050)	(0.043)	(0.041)	(0.093)
COVID-19 cases*Post	0.031**	0.033***	0.031**	0.078***
	(0.015)	(0.012)	(0.013)	(0.028)
Household fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R-squared	0.39	0.22	0.15	0.37
No. observations	3764	3764	3764	3764

Notes: All estimation results are adjusted by sampling weights accounting for systematic non-response in the phone survey. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases are transformed using an inverse hyperbolic sine transformation to accommodate one state with zero case. Standard errors, clustered at EA level, are given in parentheses. * p < 0.10, ^**p < 0.05, ^***p < 0.01.

Source: Authors' calculations based on Nigeria's LSMS-ISA 2018–19 and 2020 rounds.