Table 5. Correlates of poverty of Syrian registered refugees: Female and male principal applicant households

||**Poverty befor**|**e assistance**|**Poverty aft**|**er WFP asst.**|**Poverty after**|**WFP+UNHCR**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Female PA|Male PA|Female PA|Male PA|Female PA|Male PA|
||(1)|(2)|(3)|(4)|(5)|(6)|
|**PA Characteristics**|||||||
|Age of PA|−0.0779|0.156|−0.0688|0.122|−0.142|−0.0100|
||(0.0494)|(0.0299) ***|(0.0460)|(0.0278) ***|(0.0363) ***|(0.0212)|
|Education 6‐–11 years|−0.831<br>|−2.899<br>|−1.656<br>|−3.356<br>|−3.904<br>|−4.408<br>|
||(1.064)|(0.599) ***|(1.024)|(0.604) ***|(0.811) ***|(0.485) ***|
|Education >12 years|−4.141|−7.826|−3.771|−6.356|−4.919|−5.916|
||(1.436) ***|(0.748) ***|(1.333) ***|(0.698) ***|(1.007) ***|(0.530) ***|
|Married, absent spouse|−1.126|−5.012|3.719|−2.505|0.965|0.469|
||(4.484)|(2.200) **|(4.238)|(1.730)|(3.157)|(1.343)|
|Widowed|3.486|−4.918|7.624|−1.308|3.505|−1.625|
||(4.431)|(3.671)|(4.217) *|(3.164)|(3.154)|(2.186)|
|Single or engaged|3.536|0.668|7.134|0.480|3.002|1.443|
||(4.688)|(2.094)|(4.383)|(1.703)|(3.210)|(1.307)|
|Divorced|0.959|−3.847|6.880|0.626|3.621|1.711|
||(4.713)|(3.537)|(4.420)|(2.921)|(3.292)|(2.225)|
|**HH characteristics**|||||||
|Household size|11.75|13.39|5.113|8.174|3.038|4.459|
||(0.340) ***|(0.208) ***|(0.345) ***|(0.216) ***|(0.277) ***|(0.169) ***|
|Children <5 years|1.889|−2.117|4.396|−1.081|3.909|0.204|
||(1.211)|(0.764) ***|(1.178) ***|(0.798)|(0.894) ***|(0.591)|
|Women and girls, %|−8.696|−7.069|1.380|−4.260|2.844|−0.599|
||(2.230) ***|(1.638) ***|(2.127)|(1.622) ***|(1.672) *|(1.217)|
|No. of male adults|−8.291|−11.01|−3.786|−4.794|0.187|1.172|
||(0.766) ***|(0.466) ***|(0.825) ***|(0.579) ***|(0.688)|(0.492) **|
|Elderly person|8.205|3.533|9.237|2.956|6.694|3.465|
||(1.994) ***|(1.552) **|(1.778) ***|(1.401) **|(1.325) ***|(1.100) ***|
|Disabled person|6.631|5.679|8.083|6.971|1.467|0.724|
||(1.791) ***|(0.789) ***|(1.803) ***|(0.861) ***|(1.319)|(0.629)|
|Wage income|−8.596|−6.172|−5.532|−5.876|−2.968|−1.387|
||(3.759) **|(1.394) ***|(3.409)|(1.026) ***|(2.578)|(0.797) *|
|Remittance income|<br>−9.806|<br>−12.12|<br>−6.850|<br>−7.711|<br>−3.975|<br>−2.419|
||(1.359) ***|(1.253) ***|(1.168) ***|(0.885) ***|(0.816) ***|(0.601) ***|
|Legal entry status|−5.000|−7.937|−4.272|−4.808|−2.912|−3.007|
||(0.908) ***|(0.510) ***|(0.840) ***|(0.487) ***|(0.619) ***|(0.357) ***|
|**Family type**|||||||
|Only‐person|4.012|−1.768|4.317|10.73|5.226|9.297|
||(4.723)|(2.330)|(4.504)|(1.938) ***|(3.346)|(1.488) ***|
|Single caregiver|1.514|1.789|−0.297|3.687|3.460|2.297|
||(4.490)|(2.726)|(4.306)|(2.210) *|(3.219)|(1.692)|
|Couple w/o children|1.744|‐9.033|4.406|3.100|6.528|5.129|
||(4.087)|(1.185) ***|(3.567)|(1.001) ***|(2.810) **|(0.758) ***|
|Unaccompanied child.|21.09|7.423|26.59|23.87|24.36|21.17|
||(6.518) ***|(3.969) *|(6.523) ***|(3.606) ***|(5.597) ***|(3.053) ***|
|Siblings|12.41|10.10|12.62|8.912|15.78|5.807|
||(5.749) **|(3.181) ***|(5.534) **|(2.492) ***|(4.446) ***|(1.982) ***|
|Extended and other|<br>−5.798|<br>−1.570|<br>−4.104|<br>0.404|<br>2.039|<br>1.535|
||(4.708)|(1.795)|(4.359)|(1.547)|(3.234)|(1.183)|
|Polygamous|<br>−12.79|<br>−11.40|<br>4.266|<br>−23.71|<br>−13.38|<br>−5.022|
||(24.70)|(18.18)|(26.27)|(17.02)|(2.667) ***|(15.81)|
|Observations|11,699|30,360|11,699|30,360|11,699|30,360|
|R‐squared|0.225|0.384|0.070|0.162|0.070|0.110|

_Note:_ PA = principal applicant; HH = household. Robust standard errors in parenthesis. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1. Omitted categories: less than 6 years of education, married with spouse in the household, illegal entry status, couple with children; Governorate dummies are included but not reported.

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