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Table 12 Estimated effects on household expenditure

From: Health shocks and child time allocation decisions by households: evidence from Ethiopia

 

Food expenditure

Non-food expenditure

 

Food expenditure

Non-food expenditure

Mother ill

− 0.025 (0.023)

0.025 (0.038)

Urban

0.169* (0.076)

0.418** (0.118)

Father ill

− 0.049 (0.030)

− 0.154** (0.044)

Illness of another person

0.051* (0.026)

0.040 (0.040)

Mother’s education

− 0.023 (0.019)

− 0.010 (0.025)

Crop failure

− 0.009 (0.026)

− 0.088* (0.040)

Mother’s age

− 0.003 (0.004)

− 0.002 (0.006)

Death of livestock

− 0.025 (0.028)

0.010 (0.038)

Father’s education

0.017 (0.019)

− 0.016 (0.027)

Theft

0.033 (0.034)

0.143** (0.055)

Father’s age

0.005* (0.003)

− 0.003 (0.004)

Loss of paid employment

− 0.041 (0.036)

− 0.014 (0.046)

Mother’s power

0.225 (0.245)

− 0.153 (0.458)

Forced eviction

0.079* (0.046)

0.156* (0.072)

Male head

0.005 (0.055)

0.021 (0.077)

Social group

0.035 (0.048)

0.049 (0.055)

Household size

0.047** (0.010)

0.069** (0.015)

Microfinance

− 0.095* (0.047)

0.038 (0.061)

Wealth index

0.367** (0.144)

1.360** (0.214)

Drought

− 0.082** (0.027)

− 0.098* (0.039)

Owns animal

0.062* (0.033)

0.011 (0.063)

Flood

− 0.040 (0.024)

0.075* (0.041)

Land size

0.001 (0.001)

− 0.006** (0.001)

Health centre

0.050** (0.030)

0.102* (0.044)

  1. Standard errors appear in parentheses. A double asterisk (**) beside a parameter indicates that it is significantly different from zero at the 1% level; a single asterisk (*) indicates significance at the 5% level.