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

Table 5 The effects of parental illness on time spent in different activities (sub-samples)

Sub-sample	Effect	Play	Schooling	Domestic chores	Income-generating work
Boys	Maternal illness	− 0.079* (0.035)	− 0.049 (0.045)	0.263** (0.042)	− 0.084 (0.081)
Boys	Paternal illness	0.063 (0.038)	− 0.141** (0.054)	0.057 (0.043)	0.290** (0.078)
Girls	Maternal illness	− 0.117** (0.035)	− 0.073 (0.043)	0.313** (0.029)	− 0.344* (0.141)
Girls	Paternal illness	0.025 (0.038)	0.019 (0.048)	− 0.016 (0.033)	0.143 (0.160)

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