Table B4.
Impacts on early marriage and pregnancy (individual fixed-effects), youth aged 14–21 at baseline, by sex and country
| Male | Female | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panel A: Malawi [Social Cash Transfer Program] |
(1) Ever married or cohabited |
(2) Ever married or cohabited |
(3) Ever pregnant |
(4) Currently pregnant |
(5) Ever given birth |
| Treatment status * Follow-up | −0.0110 | −0.00386 | −0.0196 | −0.0345 | 0.00874 |
| (0.0117) | (0.0304) | (0.0333) | (0.0220) | (0.0279) | |
| Follow-up | 0.0373*** | 0.162*** | 0.219*** | 0.0323** | 0.192*** |
| (0.00933) | (0.0233) | (0.0229) | (0.0146) | (0.0230) | |
| Constant | 0.0196*** | 0.117*** | 0.216*** | 0.0447*** | 0.175*** |
| (0.00295) | (0.00767) | (0.00831) | (0.00548) | (0.00709) | |
| Observations | 2,046 | 1,756 | 1,834 | 1,834 | 1,834 |
| R-squared | 0.033 | 0.160 | 0.210 | 0.007 | 0.196 |
| Number of individuals | 1,023 | 878 | 917 | 917 | 917 |
| Male | Female | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panel B: Zambia [Multiple Category Targeted Grant] |
(1) Ever married or cohabited |
(2) Ever married or cohabited |
(3) Ever pregnant |
(4) Currently pregnant |
(5) Ever given birth |
| Treatment status*Follow-up | 0.000858 | 0.00996 | −0.00257 | −0.00974 | 0.000547 |
| (0.00779) | (0.0151) | (0.0197) | (0.0104) | (0.0183) | |
| Follow-up | 0.0181*** | 0.0439*** | 0.130*** | 0.0270*** | 0.106*** |
| (0.00526) | (0.00991) | (0.0138) | (0.00793) | (0.0140) | |
| Constant | 0.00309 | 0.0346*** | 0 0926*** | 0.0107*** | 0.0810*** |
| (0.00194) | (0.00374) | (0.00493) | (0.00262) | (0.00461) | |
| Observations | 2,592 | 2,140 | 2,420 | 2,420 | 2,420 |
| R-squared | 0.019 | 0.049 | 0.129 | 0.017 | 0.107 |
| Number of individuals | 1,296 | 1,070 | 1,210 | 1,210 | 1,210 |
NOTES: Estimations use individual panel fixed-effects modeling (follow-up after 30 months in Malawi and after 36 month in Zambia). Robust standard errors in parentheses corrected for clustering.
***
p<0.01,
**
p<0.05,
*
p<0.1.
Inconsistent observations, namely those individuals reporting ever being married/pregnant at baseline but never being married/pregnant at endline were excluded from the analysis. Sampling weights have been applied in Malawi.