# **Table 2: Determinants of Committee Membership**

## **Dependent Variable: Relevant Committee Membership Binary [Member=1] in All Columns Robust Standard Errors**

||**(1) Unconditional**|**(2) Sector FE**|**(3) Constituency**|**(4) Clustering**|**(5) Project-level**|**(6) First-stage**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Relevant Committee Experience [yes=1]**|0.62***|0.63***|0.63***|0.63***|0.60***|0.60***|
||(0.03)|(0.03)|(0.03)|(0.05)|(0.03)|(0.03)|
||[0.00]|[0.00]|[0.00]|[0.00]|[0.00]|[0.00]|
|**Sector fixed effects**|No|Yes|Yes|Yes|Yes|Yes|
|**Constituency controls**|No|No|Yes|Yes|Yes|Yes|
|**Project controls**|No|No|No|No|No|Yes|
|**Mean of dependent variable**|0.11|0.11|0.11|0.11|0.15|0.15|
|**Adjusted R-squared**|0.34|0.34|0.34|-0.20|0.32|0.32|
|**Observations (Clusters)**|2,760|2,760|2,760|2,760 (8)|3,008|3,008|

**Notes** : *** denotes significance at 1%, ** at 5%, and * at 10% level.  Robust standard errors are in round brackets and associated p-values are in square brackets.  The dependant variable in all columns is whether a representative sits on a House sectoral committee.  Relevant Committee Membership is a binary variable that indicates whether the representative has qualifications or significant work experience in a sector corresponding to the sectoral committee on which they sit (columns 1 to 4) or that a project is in a constituency and sector in which the corresponding House representative sits on the relevant sectoral committee, taking the value 1 if so and 0 otherwise (columns 5 and 6).  Sector fixed effects relate to whether the committee is in the Agriculture, Education, Environment, Federal Capital Territory, Health, Housing, Water or Female Empowerment sector.  Constituency characteristics are comprised of the means and standard deviations of the following indices: the proportion of poor in the constituency, measured by a national poverty index, the average years of education of the household head, the proportion of constituents with access to potable water, the average time in minutes to the nearest primary school, and the average time in minutes to the nearest secondary school.  Means and standard deviations of the following indices are also included to reflect the frequency with which constituents benefit from a public project of the named type in the five years preceding 2006: construction of electrification infrastructure, rehabilitation of electrification infrastructure, well/borehole, construction of piped water infrastructure, rehabilitation of piped water infrastructure, sanitation, school construction project, school rehabilitation, health facility construction, health facility rehabilitation, road construction, tarring/grading of roads, transportation services, and agricultural-inputs schemes.  Finally, constituency characteristics include a set of indicators of the economic dynamics of the constituency, comprised of indicators of improvements in opportunities for employment, the availability of agricultural inputs, number of buyers of agriculture produce, the availability of extension services, the availability of credit facilities, and the availability of consumer goods.  Figures are rounded to two decimal places.