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Table 7 Average partial effects of illness on the probability of child labour (sub-samples)

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

 

Boys

Girls

Maternal illness

0.050 (0.028)

0.132** (0.029)

Paternal illness

0.072* (0.030)

− 0.032 (0.034)

  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 probability of child labour in the case of maternal or paternal illness
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