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

Table 3 The effects of parental illness: models with an interaction term

	Play	Schooling	Domestic chores	Income-generating work
Maternal illness	− 0.104** (0.028)	− 0.058 (0.033)	0.335** (0.028)	− 0.137 (0.071)
Paternal illness	0.035 (0.034)	− 0.155** (0.049)	0.081* (0.036)	0.317** (0.086)
Maternal illness × paternal illness	− 0.045 (0.039)	− 0.089* (0.045)	0.275** (0.038)	0.069 (0.096)
Observations	4538	1908	4514	2334

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