14(27)
Table 2.
Sample means in May 1996, treatment and control groups.
Treatment
group
Control
group
Demographic characteristics
Women
0.68 0.70
Age of recipient (t)
39.13 37.62
Number of children (t)
1.25 1.36
Age of youngest child (t)
10.15 9.26
Having children older than age 16 (t)
0.22 0.20
Economic variables
Number of months the household received a housing
allowance between January 1994 and January 1997
27.96 28.14
Housing expenses/household income, 1996
0.59 0.60
Decrease in housing allowance due to size limit, tSEK/year
3.18 0.00
Settlement variables
Tobin’s
q
(t)
0.91 0.94
Municipal unemployment rate [%] (t)
11.30 11.20
Municipality dummies
(t)
Metropolitan
0.18 0.26
Suburban
0.13 0.14
Large
0.33 0.29
Commuter
0.16 0.15
Sparsely populated
0.06 0.05
Manufacturing
0.03 0.02
Other, more than 25,000 inhabitants
0.02 0.02
Other, 12,500–25,000 inhabitants
0.07 0.06
Other, fewer than 12,500 inhabitants
0.02 0.01
N
22,773 35,395
Notes:
The gender dummy, the municipality dummies, and having children over age 16 are
dummy variables with a value of 0 or 1. In the ratio of housing expenses to household income,
income is household income before tax but without housing and social allowance. (t) indicates
time-varying covariates.
The ratio of housing expenses to household income is high for both groups.
Note also that household income is income before tax, but excluding
housing and social allowances. Furthermore, the single parents in the
