**_Table 3_** _– Quantile Regressions: Food Consumption Expenditures_

|**Dependent variable: Ratio of the vari**|**ation of food cons.**<br>**Median**|**between t1 a**<br>|**nd t0 over tot**<br>**.25quan**|**al average f**<br>**tile**|**ood cons. in t1 and t0**<br>**.75quantile**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||[1]|[2]|[3]<br>|[4]<br>|[5]<br>[6]<br>|
|**treated**|**1.710 *****|**1.694 *****|**2.587 *****|**2.333 *****|**0.691 *****<br>**0.677 *****|
||[0.056]|[0.048]|[0.112]|[0.087]|[0.020]<br>[0.029]|
|**Village level shocks**||||||
|Lower yields due to drought or floods|**-0.089**|**-0.101** **|**-0.046**|**-0.190** **|**0.005**<br>**0.019**|
||[0.059]|[0.049]|[0.117]|[0.088]|[0.022]<br>[0.029]|
|Rise in food prices|**-0.117 ****|**-0.113 ****|**-0.232 ****|**-0.028**|**-0.032**<br>**-0.046**|
||[0.058]|[0.048]|[0.117]|[0.087]|[0.021]<br>[0.029]|
|**HH level shocks**||||||
|Crop disease|**0.048**|**0.031**|**0.130**|**0.101**|**0.005**<br>**0.052** _*_|
||[0.063]|[0.052]|[0.126]|[0.091]|[0.022]<br>[0.031]|
|Livestock died or stolen|**-0.007**|**0.029**|**0.050**|**-0.010**|**-0.005**<br>**-0.007**|
||[0.072]|[0.060]|[0.148]|[0.106]|[0.025]<br>[0.035]|
|Theft|**0.019**|**0.006**|**-0.216**|**-0.130**|**-0.003**<br>**-0.029**|
||[0.098]|[0.080]|[0.193]|[0.146]|[0.035]<br>[0.049]|
|House damage|**-0.086**|**-0.036**|**-0.225 ****|**-0.139**|**-0.021**<br>**-0.029**|
||[0.058]|[0.047]|[0.116]|[0.086]|[0.021]<br>[0.028]|
|Safety net (food)|**0.020**|**0.029**|**-0.054**|**-0.005**|**0.009**<br>**0.006**|
||[0.061]|[0.050]|[0.122]|[0.090]|[0.021]<br>[0.029]|
|Safety net (agr. inputs)|**-0.118 ****|**-0.126 ****|**-0.181**|**-0.156 ***|**-0.040 ****<br>**-0.025**|
||[0.058]|[0.049]|[0.115]|[0.088]|[0.020]<br>[0.028]|
|**HH assets**||||||
|Furnitures (mattress, table, chairs)||**0.060**||**0.446** ***|**0.074**|
|||[0.084]||[0.146]|[0.050]|
|Animal (chickens, pigs, etc)||**0.183** **||**0.065**|**0.007**|
|||[0.072]||[0.125]|[0.041]|
|Agr tools (axe, sickle, hoe)||**-0.045**||**-0.363** ***|**-0.008**|
|||[0.073]||[0.140]|[0.045]|
|**HH characteristics**||||||
|HH size||**0.006**||**0.032**|**-0.002**|
|||[0.014]||[0.025]|[0.008]|
|Chronically ill adults||**0.129 ****||**0.301 *****|**0.044**|
|||[0.051]||[0.092]|[0.030]|
|Presence of orphans||**-0.022**||**-0.216 ****|**0.004**|
|||[0.055]||[0.092]|[0.033]|
|Deaths in the past 5 years||**0.040**||**0.218 ****|**0.003**|
|||[0.051]||[0.092]|[0.030]|
|Disable persons||**0.085**||**0.062**|**0.042**|
|||[0.057]||[0.104]|[0.034]|
|**Head of HH's charact.**||||||
|Female headed||**0.152** **||**0.320** **|**0.068**|
|||[0.077]||[0.136]|[0.048]|
|Over 65 yrs old||**-0.048**||**-0.179** *|**-0.052** *|
|||[0.054]||[0.094]|[0.032]|
|No education||**0.020**||**-0.062**|**0.013**|
|||[0.048]||[0.088]|[0.029]|
|Poor health status in the past year||**0.012**||**0.354** ***|**0.014**|
|||[0.059]||[0.102]|[0.035]|
|Employment in past year||**-0.164** **||**-0.241** **|**-0.108** ***|
|||[0.064]||[0.114]|[0.038]|
|Married||**-0.056**||**-0.704 ****|**0.160**|
|||[0163]||[0292]|[0100]|
|Divorced||.<br>**-0.258**||.<br>**-0.912 *****|.<br>**0.119**|
|||[0.172]||[0.306]|[0.104]|
|Widow||**-0.280 ***||**-1.004 *****|**0.098**|
|||[0.166]||[0.299]|[0.101]|
|Constant|**0.199**|**0.237**|**-1.060 *** **|**-0.373**|**1.290 *****<br>**1.115 *****|
||[0.065]<br>|[0.180]<br>|[0.134]<br>|[0.323]<br>|[0.022]<br>[0.104]<br><br>|
|**Notes:**Significant at the *** 1% le<br>**Nr. of obs.**<br>**R-sq**|vel, ** 5% level<br>749<br>0.23|, * 10% leve<br>744<br>0.25|l. Robust sta<br>749<br>0.3|ndard error<br>744<br>0.33|s in squared brackets.<br>749<br>744<br>0.09<br>0.1|

**Notes:** Significant at the *** 1% level, ** 5% level, * 10% level. Robust standard errors in squared brackets.

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