Table 1: Balance Tests and Summary Statistics

|||2015 Samp<br>|le<br>|||2016 Panel<br>|Sample<br>|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Panel A|: 2015 Bala|nce Test|Panel B|: 2016 Bala|nce Test|Panel C:|2016 Summ|ary Stats|
|||||||||W/t|With|
||Control|Treated|Dif|Control|Treated|Dif|Total|Contract|Contract|
|**Main Outcomes**||||||||||
|Health Insurance with Intention||||0.418|0.435|0.016|0.424|0.225|0.768|
|Pension with Intention||||0.429|0.442|0.013|0.434|0.237|0.773|
|Health Insurance excl. Intention||||0.371|0.376|0.005|0.372|0.159|0.742|
|Pension excl. Intention||||0.381|0.376|-0.006|0.379|0.172|0.738|
|**Baseline Indiv. Charact.**||||||||||
|2015 Health Insurance|0.339|0.337|-0.002|0.361|0.370|0.009|0.364|0.141|0.751|
|2015 Pension|0.338|0.348|0.010|0.357|0.381|0.024|0.365|0.155|0.730|
|Age|34.98|35.41|0.430|37.08|37.26|0.190|37.14|38.20|35.30|
||(10.39)|(10.50)||(10.12)|(10.16)||(10.13)|(10.27)|(9.62)|
|Woman aged _>_40|0.149|0.164|0.015|0.179|0.185|0.006|0.181|0.219|0.114|
|Men aged _>_45|0.114|0.115|0.002|0.144|0.149|0.004|0.146|0.155|0.130|
|Years of Schooling|8.965|8.997|0.032|8.898|8.996|0.099|8.932|8.413|9.831|
||(3.13)|(3.12)||(3.16)|(3.14)||(3.15)|(3.06)|(3.11)|
|Dummy for Males|0.567|0.570|0.003|0.565|0.586|0.021|0.572|0.559|0.595|
|Dummy for Being Working|0.996|0.997|0.001|0.995|0.997|0.002|0.996|0.994|1.000|
|Written Contract|0.370|0.360|-0.009|0.368|0.363|-0.005|0.366|0.000|1.000|
|Self-Employed|0.305|0.318|0.013|0.354|0.367|0.014|0.358|0.564|0.000|
|Willing to Stay Permanently|0.615|0.615|0.000|0.646|0.640|-0.006|0.644|0.656|0.622|
|Married|0.697|0.706|0.009|0.749|0.742|-0.007|0.746|0.787|0.677|
|Number of Children|1.068|1.096|0.028|1.159|1.165|0.006|1.161|1.256|0.997|
||(0.90)|(0.89)||(0.88)|(0.88)||(0.88)|(0.87)|(0.87)|
|**Firm Level Controls**||||||||||
|Firm Size|4.528|4.342|-0.187**|4.323|4.204|-0.119|4.281|3.186|6.178|
||(2.62)|(2.51)||(2.58)|(2.50)||(2.55)|(2.19)|(1.94)|
|Firm Ownership||||||||||
|State and collective|0.070|0.063|-0.007|0.072|0.068|-0.004|0.071|0.028|0.145|
|Domestic private|0.272|0.254|-0.017|0.246|0.231|-0.015|0.241|0.150|0.398|
|Foreign and joint venture|0.088|0.106|0.017*|0.090|0.110|0.020*|0.097|0.015|0.239|
|Self-employed|0.561|0.568|0.008|0.584|0.583|0.000|0.583|0.802|0.204|
|Other|0.009|0.009|0.000|0.008|0.008|0.000|0.008|0.004|0.015|
|**City Indicators**||||||||||
|Dongguan|0.065|0.069|0.004|0.059|0.064|0.005|0.061|0.025|0.122|
|Shenzhen|0.065|0.066|0.001|0.071|0.072|0.001|0.071|0.051|0.107|
|Luoyang|0.065|0.067|0.002|0.076|0.078|0.002|0.077|0.084|0.064|
|Hefei|0.089|0.093|0.004|0.085|0.096|0.011|0.088|0.114|0.044|
|Bengbu|0.044|0.045|0.002|0.043|0.040|-0.003|0.042|0.061|0.009|
|Chongqing|0.086|0.092|0.007|0.089|0.106|0.017*|0.095|0.100|0.087|
|Shanghai|0.131|0.087|-0.044***|0.125|0.084|-0.041***|0.111|0.113|0.108|
|Nanjing|0.088|0.088|0.000|0.091|0.071|-0.020**|0.084|0.077|0.096|
|Wuxi|0.044|0.048|0.004|0.042|0.048|0.005|0.044|0.021|0.085|
|Hangzhou|0.091|0.095|0.004|0.080|0.088|0.009|0.083|0.080|0.088|
|Ningbo|0.047|0.051|0.004|0.041|0.048|0.007|0.043|0.029|0.068|
|Wuhan|0.095|0.101|0.005|0.096|0.097|0.000|0.096|0.120|0.055|
|Chengdu|0.092|0.097|0.005|0.102|0.108|0.007|0.104|0.125|0.067|
|No. of Observations|4244|2152||3005|1582||4587|3112|1475|
|P-value of F-test for Joint Sig.|||0.138|||0.236||||

Source: RUMiC Migrant Survey 2015 and 2016, RUMiC Information Intervention Field Experiment, 2016. Note: Standard deviation in parentheses. Significance codes: *** p _<_ 0.01, ** p _<_ 0.05, * p _<_ 0.1.

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