**_Table 2_** _– Quantile Regressions: Total Consumption Expenditures_

|**Dependent variable: Ratio of the varia**|**tion of consumpti**<br>**Median**|**on between t1**|**and t0 over**<br>**.25quan**|**total averag**<br>**tile**|**e consumpti**<br>**.75quan**|**on in t1 and t0**<br>**tile**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||[1]<br>|[2]|[3]<br>|[4]<br>|[5]<br>|[6]<br>|
|**treated**|**1.391 *****|**1.317 *****|**2.207 *****|**1.965 *****|**0.698 *****|**0.660 *****|
||[0.036]|[0.074]|[0.085]|[0.076]|[0.038]|[0.040]|
|**Village level shocks**|||||||
|Lower yields due to drought or floods|**-0.004**|**-0.007**|**-0.130**|**-0.247** _***_|**-0.015**|**0.000**|
||[0.038]|[0.075]|[0.087]|[0.078]|[0.041]|[0.040]|
|Rise in food prices|**-0.103 *****|**-0.111**|**-0.096**|**0.012**|**-0.023**|**-0.009**|
||[0.038]|[0.073]|[0.087]|[0.076]|[0.041]|[0.040]|
|**HH level shocks**|||||||
|Crop disease|**0.030**|**0.012**|**0.063**|**0.063**|**0.017**|**0.044**|
||[0.041]|[0.079]|[0.095]|[0.082]|[0.043]|[0.043]|
|Livestock died or stolen|**-0.106** **|**-0.046**|**0.025**|**-0.023**|**0.009**|**-0.008**|
||[0.047]|[0.091]|[0.111]|[0.096]|[0.049]|[0.048]|
|Theft|**-0.125** **|**-0.119**|**-0.006**|**-0.051**|**0.003**|**-0.026**|
||[0.063]|[0.122]|[0.148]|[0.131]|[0.068]|[0.066]|
|House damage|**-0.079** **|**-0.105**|**-0.183 ****|**-0.198** _***_|**-0.043**|**-0.041**|
||[0.037]|[0.072]|[0.087]|[0.076]|[0.040]|[0.038]|
|Safety net (food)|**0.029**|**0.005**|**-0.102**|**-0.165 ****|**-0.012**|**-0.014**|
||[0.039]|[0.076]|[0.092]|[0.082]|[0.041]|[0.040]|
|Safety net (agr. inputs)|**-0.273 *****|**-0.226 *****|**-0.228 *** **|**-0.170 ****|**-0.120 *** **|**-0.107 *****|
||[0.037]|[0.075]|[0.087]|[0.080]|[0.039]|[0.040]|
|**HH assets**|||||||
|Furnitures (mattress, table, chairs)||**0.101**||**0.258** _**_||**0.009**|
|||[0.128]||[0.129]||[0.068]|
|Animal (chickens, pigs, etc)||**-0.022**||**0.119**||**-0.065**|
|||[0.108]||[0.113]||[0.059]|
|Agr tools (axe, sickle, hoe)||**-0.193** _*_||**-0.283** _**_||**-0.059**|
|**HH characteristics**||[0.115]||[0.123]||[0.061]|
|HH size||**0.023**||**0.016**||**0.004**|
|||[0.021]||[0.025]||[0.011]|
|Chronically ill adults||**0.087**||**0.199 ****||**0.054**|
|||[0.077]||[0.082]||[0.041]|
|Presence of orphans||**-0.015**||**-0.110**||**0.009**|
|||[0.083]||[0.087]||[0.045]|
|Deaths in the past 5 years||**-0.012**||**0.193 ****||**-0.004**|
|||[0.078]||[0.082]||[0.040]|
|Disable persons||**0.040**||**0.037**||**0.071**|
|||[0.087]||[0.093]||[0.045]|
|**Head of HH's charact.**|||||||
|Female headed||**0.030**||**0.310** _**_||**0.035**|
|||[0.116]||[0.127]||[0.060]|
|Over 65 yrs old||**-0.044**||**-0.097**||**0.001**|
|||[0.083]||[0.086]||[0.044]|
|No education||**0.004**||**-0.076**||**-0.005**|
|||[0.074]||[0.079]||[0.039]|
|Poor health status in the past year||**0.118**||**0.317** ***||**0.016**|
|||[0.090]||[0.092]||[0.049]|
|Employment in past year||**-0.093**||**-0.193** **||**-0.053**|
|||[0.097]||[0.103]||[0.051]|
|Married||**-0.029**||**-0.435 ***||**0.032**|
|||[0.252]||[0.263]||[0.134]|
|Divorced||**-0.054**||**-0.588 ****||**0.021**|
|||[0260]||[0275]||[0138]|
|Widow||.<br>**-0.106**||.<br>**-0.671 ****||.<br>**0.015**|
|||[0.252]||[0.270]||[0.135]|
|Constant|**0.496** ***|**0.573 ****|**-0.598 *** **|**-0.119**|**1.248 *****|**1.218 *****|
||[0.042]<br>|[0.277]<br>|[0.101]<br>|[0.289]<br>|[0.044]<br>|[0.142]<br>|
|**Notes:**Significant at the *** 1% le<br>**Nr. of obs.**<br>**R-sq**|vel, ** 5% leve<br>749<br>0.23|l, * 10% leve<br>744<br>0.25|l. Robust s<br>749<br>0.31|tandard err<br>744<br>0.34|ors in squa<br>749<br>0.13|red brackets.<br>744<br>0.14|

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

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