Ten-Year Impacts of Burkina Faso’s BRIGHT Program

II. EVALUATION DESIGN AND DATA COLLECTION
MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH
Table II.1. Summary of village and household characteristics
Characteristic
Overall average
(1)
Villages close to
cutoff
(2)
Villages far from
cutoff
(3)
Difference between
far and close
villages
(4)
Panel A: Household
Household size 7.51 7.37 7.57 -0.20
(3.73) (3.58) (3.80) (0.18)
Basic floor material (%) 89.32 92.17 87.93 4.18**
(30.89) (26.87) (32.58) (1.73)
Basic roof material (%) 72.44 79.06 69.23 9.79***
(44.68) (40.69) (46.16) (3.13)
Number of radios 0.62 0.61 0.62 -0.01
(0.65) (0.62) (0.67) (0.03)
Number of mobile
phones
1.57 1.43 1.65 -0.22***
(1.33) (1.19) (1.39) (0.06)
Number of watches 0.22 0.26 0.20 0.07***
(0.48) (0.51) (0.46) (0.02)
Number of bicycles 1.32 1.13 1.41 -0.27***
(1.15) (1.02) (1.20) (0.07)
Number of
motorcycles/scooters
Number of animaldrawn
carts
0.45 0.48 0.44 0.04
(0.60) (0.61) (0.60) (0.02)
0.65 0.66 0.64 0.02
(0.80) (0.76) (0.82) (0.04)
Number of cows 3.44 3.96 3.19 0.76**
(7.46) (8.06) (7.13) (0.31)
Religion Muslim (%) 59.88 64.88 57.44 7.44*
(49.02) (47.74) (49.45) (4.25)
Panel B: Children
Age 12.19 12.25 12.16 0.09
(4.53) (4.56) (4.52) (0.09)
Male (%) 51.57 52.63 51.08 1.55**
(49.98) (49.93) (49.99) (0.77)
Head's child (%) 80.70 80.57 80.76 -0.19
(39.47) (39.57) (39.42) (1.28)
Panel C: Sample sizes
Number of villages 291 95 196
Number of households 11438 3740 7698
Number of children 34862 11132 23730
Sources: Mathematica household survey 2015, Mathematica school survey 2015, application data (Burkina Faso
MEBA 2005–2006).
Notes:
Standard errors are presented in parentheses, clustered at the village level.
*/**/***Coefficient statistically significant at the 10%/5%/1% significance level
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