Does linking women farmers to markets improve food security? Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Table 4 A summary of project’s average treatment effects on various self-reported outcomes

	EJ (extension services)		NG (extension services and community marketing)
	Coef	CG Mean	Coef	CG Mean
Monthly expenditure patterns
Decrease in food expenditures	– 0.278^*** (0.031)	0.921	0.127^*** (0.044)	0.702
Decrease in healthcare expenditures	– 0.109^*** (0.040)	0.727	– 0.232^*** (0.036)	0.933
Decrease in education expenditures	– 0.045 (0.035)	0.797	– 0.194^*** (0.036)	0.850
Decrease in transportation expenditures	– 0.107^** (0.045)	0.605	– 0.515^*** (0.034)	0.932
Food security and dietary diversity
HFIS	– 4.209^*** (0.335)	6.104	0.116 (0.332)	1.941
HDDS	1.084^*** (0.117)	7.088	0.359^*** (0.132)	6.872
Homestead food production and marketing
Poultry rearing	0.113^*** (0.043)	0.620	0.034 (0.035)	0.818
Quantity of poultry^b	1.916 (1.894)	7.748	3.968^*** (0.917)	7.131
Sale of poultry^b	0.141^*** (0.037)	0.113	0.181^*** (0.048)	0.270
Vegetable Cultivation	0.301^*** (0.040)	0.477	0.120^** (0.047)	0.462
Vegetable production^{a, c}	0.341^** (0.158)	3.582	0.209 (0.266)	4.350
Sale of vegetable^c	0.089 (0.050)	0.278	0.196^*** (0.069)	0.315
Obs	769		889

CG mean: predicted comparison group means. Standard errors are bootstrapped using 300 replications of the model and reported in parenthesis. * denotes significance at 10 percent, ** at 5 percent, and *** at 1 percent level
^aValues are expressed in logarithm term
^bHouseholds that were involved in poultry rearing are used in calculating descriptive statistics
^cHouseholds that were involved vegetable cultivation are used in calculating descriptive statistics

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