Testing a conditional cash transfer program in the U.S.: the effects of the family rewards program in New York City

Table 4 Program-control balance (Logit estimates)

	Full sample		Respondents to the 18-month survey		Respondents to the 42-month survey
	Coefficient	p-value	Coefficient	p-value	Coefficient	p-value
Target child proficient on ELA test, 2007	0.01	0.886	0.100	0.248	0.097	0.273
Target child proficient on math test, 2007	0.094	0.172	0.096	0.256	0.091	0.291
Community District 2	−0.01	0.927	−0.113	0.427	−0.068	0.616
Community District 3	0.031	0.756	−0.062	0.648	−0.010	0.937
Community District 4	0.007	0.94	−0.059	0.625	−0.052	0.674
Community District 5	0.014	0.897	−0.027	0.848	0.023	0.863
Community District 6	−0.019	0.867	0.065	0.612	−0.096	0.491
Number of children in household	−0.015	0.525	−0.009	0.763	−0.019	0.521
Primary language spoken at home is English	0.011	0.913	0.001	0.993	−0.017	0.896
Two-parent family	0.088	0.259	0.179	0.071	0.159	0.114
High school diploma, GED certificate, or above	−0.148	0.021	−0.068	0.394	−0.061	0.453
Currently working	0.027	0.677	0.077	0.356	0.041	0.626
Randomly assigned after September 2008	−0.034	0.611	−0.013	0.891	0.000	0.996
Black, non-Hispanic/Latino	0.344	0.105	0.433	0.141	0.373	0.192
Hispanic/Latino	0.369	0.087	0.504	0.089	0.449	0.120
U.S. citizen by birth	0.113	0.145	0.058	0.557	0.098	0.327
Age	0.002	0.512	0.010	0.022	0.009	0.061
Family living in public housing or receiving Section 8	−0.116	0.063	−0.169	0.031	−0.165	0.039
Family receiving TANF or Safety Net Assistance	0.098	0.197	0.100	0.297	0.120	0.215
Covered by public health insurance	−0.007	0.914	0.009	0.920	−0.061	0.516
Likelihood ratio	25.3	0.657	30.4	0.444	24.2	0.719
Wald statistic	25.1	0.671	29.8	0.473	23.9	0.735
N	4749		3082		2966

Sources: Baseline survey and New York City DOE records
Each column presents logit estimates from a model predicting the probability of being in the program group