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Table 2 Determinants of on time spent in different activities

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

 

Play

Schooling

Domestic chores

Income-generating work

A. Parental illness

 Maternal illness

− 0.098** (0.025)

− 0.033 (0.024)

0.299** (0.025)

− 0.170* (0.071)

 Paternal illness

0.045 (0.027)

− 0.092** (0.031)

0.012 (0.027)

0.276** (0.071)

 Observations

4538

1908

4514

2334

B. Other selected characteristics

 Illness of another person

0.004 (0.023)

0.004 (0.023)

− 0.049 (0.027)

0.108 (0.064)

 Health centre access

− 0.018 (0.030)

0.053 (0.035)

− 0.224** (0.033)

− 0.083 (0.106)

 Observations

4538

1908

4514

2334

  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. The parameters indicate the percentage change in the number of hours worked, on average, in the case of maternal or paternal illness, illness of another member of the household, or access to a health centre. The full set of parameters estimates appears in Table 9 of the Appendix