# **Table A6: Characteristics of ELA Participants**

**Means, clustered standard errors from OLS regressions in parentheses P-value of t-test of equality of means with relevant control group in braces**

||<br>**Participants**||
|---|---|---|
||**Low Disruption**<br>**High Disruption**<br>**(1)**<br>**(2)**|**Difference**<br>**(3)**|
|**_A. Basic Characteristics_**|||
|**Age**|17.3<br>17.2|{.594}|
||[3.73]<br>[3.79]||
|**In any relationship**|.565<br>.631|{.982}|
|**Married**|.268<br>.272|{.324}|
|**Age at marriage**|16.3<br>16.6|{.415}|
||[2.82]<br>[2.64]||
|**Age of husband at marriage**|31.82<br>31.29|{.553}|
||[7.62]<br>[5.86]||
|**Has children**|0.478<br>0.434|{.275}|
|**If in relationship: Experienced any**<br>**form of intimate partner violence**|0.492<br>0.535|{.128}|
|**_B. Empowerment and Aspirations_**|||
|**Gender Empowerment Index [0-100]**|.175<br>.145|{.497}|
||[.204]<br>[.209]||
|**Sexually active**|.696<br>.671|{.364}|
|**If active: Age at sexual debut**|14.5<br>14.6|{.223}|
||[2.21]<br>[1.84]||
|**If active: Uses contraceptive**|.425<br>.408|{.383}|
|**(any, excluding condoms)**|[.495]<br>[.492]||
|**If active: Ever used condoms**|.093<br>.098|{.584}|
|**Leisure activity: Men (weekly hours)**|4.89<br>5.20|{.380}|
||[5.27]<br>[5.19]||
|**Time use: Learning Activities (weekly**|29.4<br>27.2|{.804}|
|**hours)**|[34.2]<br>[30.1]||
|**Unwanted sex over past year**|.121<br>.086|{.138}|
|**Transactional sex over past year**|.039<br>.043|{.941}|
|**_C. Human Capital and Economic A_**|**_ctivities_**||
|**Skills: Literacy [0,1]**|.209<br>.232|{.818}|
||[.262]<br>[.254]||
|**Pregnancy Knowledge [0-100]**|.648<br>.661|{.477}|
||[.278]<br>[.272]||
|**HIV Knowledge [0-100]**|.573<br>.607|{.911}|
||[.199]<br>[.198]||
|**Enrolled only**|.289<br>.223|{.363}|
|**Engaged in income generation only**|.334<br>.325|{.606}|
|**Engaged in both**|.166<br>.240|{.152}|
|**Engaged in neither**|.210<br>.211|{.764}|

**Notes:** Column 3 reports p-values from a test of equality of means carried out by OLS regression of each characteristic. Regressions include strata (district) dummies and standard errors are clustered at the village level. Intimate partner violence is defined as the threat or use of physical violence from the respondent's partner. For the Empowerment Index, respondents were asked whether men, women or both should be responsible for the following activities: earn money for the family; have a higher level of education; do washing, cleaning and cooking; fetch water if there is no water pump or tap; feeding and bathing children; help the children in their studies at home; look after ill persons. The index is the share of questions to which the answer was both/same. Therefore, higher values represent more egalitarian gender norms. Time allocation data was collected both at baseline and endline. Respondents were provided a set of 25 beads and a board with six circles representing: "Education", "IGA", "Leisure", "Household Chores", "Sleep" and "Other". The Education category includes schooling, vocational training and study time. "IGA" includes paid and unpaid work of any kind. Respondents were then asked to allocate beads into each circle in a way that represents time allocation in an average week. Data on leisure time allocation was collected in a similar way. The recorded categories for leisure are: "Friends", "Men", "Alone", "Church", "Volunteer" and "Other". The exact phrasing for the "Men" category is "With boys or men you have a sexual relationship with". Respondents were then asked to allocate beads into each circle in a way that represents time allocation in an average week. The data points were later converted into weekly hours using recorded total leisure time from the first exercise. Unwanted Sex is defined as, "Been involved in any sexual intercourse that you were not willing to do". Transactional Sex is defined as, "Receiving anything such as money, gifts, help with schoolwork or something else in exchange for sexual intercourse". Literacy is assessed based on respondent's ability to read simple things like labels on containers (basic), and reading comprehension and writing of complete sentence (advanced). The score representing respondent's proficiency with these tasks is then rescaled to range between 0 and 100. Pregnancy and HIV knowledge represent the number of correct answers to the following true/false questions: "A women cannot become pregnant at first intercourse or with occasional sexual relation"; "A woman who is breastfeeding can become pregnant."; "From one menstrual period to the next, there days when a woman is more likely to become pregnant if she has sexual relations."; "A person who has HIV is different from a person who is ill with AIDS"; "During vaginal sex, it is easier for a woman to receive the HIV virus than for a man."; "Pulling out the penis before a man climaxes keeps a woman from getting HIV during sex "; "A women cannot get HIV if she has sex during her period"; "Taking a test for HIV one week after having sex will tell a person if she or he has HIV"; "A Pregnant woman with HIV can give the virus to her unborn baby".