Cash transfers and female labor force participation: the case of AUH in Argentina

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of estimation sample. Women aged 20–60—head of household or spouse

Variables	Before AUH					After AUH
	Treat	Control	Diff.	t	p value	Treat	Control	Diff.	t	p value
	(i)	(ii)	(ii)–(i)			(i)	(ii)	(ii)–(i)
Age	37.3	44.6	7.30	30.8	0.00	37.3	44.2	6.88	26.5	0.00
Years of education	8.20	9.73	1.53	20.0	0.00	8.40	9.91	1.50	18.5	0.00
Married women (%)	0.86	0.88	0.02	2.75	0.01	0.84	0.87	0.03	4.20	0.00
Women with employed partner (%)	0.87	0.87	0.00	− 0.44	0.66	0.87	0.87	0.01	0.83	0.41
Household head (%)	0.19	0.15	− 0.04	− 4.92	0.00	0.25	0.19	− 0.06	− 5.99	0.00
Number of children	2.71	1.07	− 1.65	− 54.07	0.00	2.55	1.04	− 1.52	− 48.60	0.00
Number of members	5.48	4.17	− 1.31	− 32.40	0.00	5.34	4.08	− 1.26	− 28.81	0.00
Number of women (20–60 years old)	1.22	1.37	0.16	11.68	0.00	1.22	1.35	0.13	9.12	0.00
Number of men (20–65 years old)	1.11	1.25	0.14	9.18	0.00	1.10	1.24	0.14	8.02	0.00
Women in charge of domestic chores (%)	0.96	0.94	− 0.02	− 4.20	0.00	0.95	0.94	− 0.01	− 1.75	0.08
Partner in charge of domestic chores (%)	0.05	0.06	0.01	1.04	0.30	0.06	0.07	0.01	1.62	0.10
Household per capita income	157.23	563.09	405.86	34.72	0.00	431.61	1405.84	974.22	33.29	0.00
Observations	2842	9374				2505	7530

Source: Authors’ calculation based on EPH data. Note 1: the sample includes all inactive women between 20 and 60 years old who are the spouse or the head of their households. The treatment group is composed of inactive women with children under age 18 who live in poor (first four deciles of the household per capita income distribution) and informal households (neither the woman nor her spouse is registered in the national social security system) while the control group includes the rest of the inactive women in our sample who do not meet all the conditions to be eligible. Before AUH: 2005–2009. After AUH: 2010–2013. Note 2: Married women refers both to legally married women and women in consensual unions