**Appendix Table 3: Balance on baseline covariates for the matched sample interviewed in each wave.**

|||**PDM2**<br>|||**PDM4**<br>|||**PDM6**<br>||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Treatment|Control|Difference|Treatment|Control|Difference|Treatment|Control|Difference|
|Variable|Mean/SD|Mean/SD|(T-C)|Mean/SD|Mean/SD|(T-C)|Mean/SD|Mean/SD|(T-C)|
|HH size|6.00|5.97|0.03|6.00|5.98|0.02|6.05|5.88|0.17|
||(3.76)|(4.70)||(3.74)|(5.10)||(3.77)|(5.04)||
|Dependents to working age ratio<sup>+</sup>|1.28|1.23|0.04|1.29|1.26|0.02|1.30|1.23|0.07*|
||(1.35)|(1.58)||(1.31)|(1.69)||(1.33)|(1.61)||
|Number of children aged 0-5 years old|1.11|1.12|-0.02|1.13|1.10|0.02|1.16|1.09|0.07|
||(1.75)|(2.18)||(1.70)|(2.07)||(1.74)|(1.87)||
|Number of children aged 6-17 years old|1.75|1.74|0.01|1.78|1.78|-0.00|1.80|1.70|0.10|
||(2.45)|(3.24)||(2.41)|(3.54)||(2.42)|(3.34)||
|Number of adults aged 18-59 year old|2.87|2.85|0.02|2.84|2.83|0.01|2.83|2.83|0.00|
||(2.65)|(2.31)||(2.38)|(2.45)||(2.34)|(2.44)||
|Number of elderly aged 60 years and older|<br>0.28|<br>0.26|0.02|<br>0.26|<br>0.27|-0.00|<br>0.25|<br>0.27|-0.01|
||(1.06)|(1.11)||(1.01)|(1.14)||(0.91)|(0.99)||
|Female headed household|0.23|0.27|-0.04**|0.24|0.26|-0.03|0.23|0.27|-0.04*|
||(0.59)|(0.91)||(0.60)|(0.89)||(0.61)|(0.89)||
|Age of household head|39.66<br>|39.02<br>|0.63|39.32<br>|38.98<br>|0.34|39.03<br>|39.32<br>|-0.29|
||(26.97)|(20.30)||(27.14)|(19.09)||(27.24)|(17.97)||
|At least one household member can speak Turkish|0.47|0.47|0.01|0.49|0.47|0.02|0.49|0.46|0.03|
||(0.85)|(0.87)||(0.84)|(0.87)||(0.85)|(0.84)||
|At least one household member can read Turkish|0.23|0.23|0.01|0.25|0.22|0.03|0.24|0.23|0.01|
||(0.76)|(0.67)||(0.77)|(0.66)||(0.75)|(0.67)||
|At least one household member can read and write Arabic|0.92<br>|0.91<br>|0.01|0.92<br>|0.90<br>|0.03*|0.92<br>|0.92<br>|0.01|
||(0.38)|(0.61)||(0.37)|(0.66)||(0.35)|(0.47)||
|Main income from skilled labor|<br>0.28|<br>0.30|-0.03|<br>0.28|<br>0.30|-0.01|<br>0.29|<br>0.30|-0.01|
||(0.78)|(0.82)||(0.78)|(0.81)||(0.81)|(0.79)||
|Main income from unskilled labor|0.63|0.62|0.02|0.64|0.62|0.01|0.64|0.61|0.03|
||(0.83)|(0.86)||(0.82)|(0.86)||(0.82)|(0.85)||
|Food Consumption Score<sup>++++</sup>|57.32|57.12|0.21|57.23|57.34|-0.10|57.70|57.03|0.67|
||(29.47)|(32.34)||(29.11)|(33.07)||(28.41)|(36.10)||
|Reduced Coping Strategies Index<sup>++++</sup>|13.44<br>|12.68<br>|0.76|13.42<br>|12.48<br>|0.94*|14.15<br>|13.02<br>|1.14*|
||(17.46)|(20.39)||(17.78)|(21.64)||(18.23)|(21.38)||
|Livelihoods Coping Strategy Index<sup>++++</sup>|<br>4.59|<br>4.70|-0.11|<br>4.67|<br>4.66|0.02|<br>4.69|<br>4.79|-0.10|
||(4.44)|(5.76)||(4.61)|(5.47)||(4.62)|(5.99)||
|Household has some amount of debt|0.77|0.78|-0.01|0.78|0.78|0.01|0.80|0.78|0.01|
||(0.74)|(0.68)||(0.72)|(0.71)||(0.68)|(0.65)||
|Total cumulative stock of debt|1222.20|1230.35|-8.15|1217.28|1241.09|-23.81|1232.53|1244.48|-11.94|
||(2894.59)|(2903.16)||(2682.44)|(2934.74)||(2678.23)|(2857.16)||
|Total monthly household expenditure|<br>1364.37|<br>1347.65|16.72|<br>1374.45|<br>1340.65|33.80|<br>1368.85|<br>1351.38|17.47|
||(769.92)|(957.54)||(738.11)|(965.58)||(759.85)|(950.67)||
|Total monthly per capita household expenditure|<br>252.45|<br>254.47|-2.02|<br>253.61|<br>253.44|0.17|<br>251.23|<br>256.92|-5.69|
||(248.00)|(202.78)||(249.14)|(210.67)||(260.16)|(196.54)||
|Proportion of school aged children attending school<sup>++</sup>|0.47|0.46|0.01|0.47|0.46|0.01|0.47|0.44|0.03|
||(0.70)|(0.73)||(0.70)|(0.76)||(0.71)|(0.76)||
|F-test of joint orthogonality (F-stat. / p-value<sup>)+++</sup>|||1.054|||0.864|||0.982|
||||<br>0.394|||<br>0.629|||<br>0.479|
|N_(all households)_|2,862|2,978||2,749|2,745||2,263|2,184||
|N_(households with children)_|2,498|1,707||2,406|1,578||1,999|1,269||
|_Note: significance level p< 0.01 - ***, 0.05 - **, 0.1 - *; the value displa_<br>_adults (aged 18-59 years old);_<sup>_++_</sup>_sample limited to household with children_|_yed in the "Differences_<br>_;_<sup>_+++_</sup>_F-test of joint-ort_|_(T-C)" column are_<br>_hogonality excludes t_|_the differences in the m_<br>_he proportion of childre_|_eans across the groups;_<br>_n attending school beca_|_+dependency ratio d_<br>_use it is undefined fo_|_efined as the ratio of de_<br>_r households without chi_|_pendents (children und_<br>_ldren; all expenditure_|_er 18 and adults 6_<br>_and debt values are_|_0+) to working age_<br>_deflated across_|
|<br>_regions and months into average 2017 Turkish Lira and are windsorized_<br>_methodology described in section 3, for the FCS a higher score indicates bett_|<br>_at the 99th percentile;_<br>_er food consumption o_|<br><sup>_++++_</sup>_The food consu_<br>_utcomes, for the rCS_|<br>_mption score (FCS), re_<br>_I and LCSI a lower sco_|<br>_duced coping strategies_<br>_re indicates a better co_|<br>_index (rCSI), and l_<br>_ping strategies outco_|<br>_ivelihoods coping strateg_<br>_me (i.e. fewer coping stra_|<br>_ies index (LCSI) are_<br>_tegies employed)._|<br>_calculated as per th_|<br>_e WFP's_|

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