Free health care for under-fives, expectant and recent mothers? Evaluating the impact of Sierra Leone’s free health care initiative

Table 1 Descriptive statistics (if sick)

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
	Eligible children	Non-eligible children	Difference (2) – (1)	All study children
Child Characteristics
Age in years	2.264	7.355	5.09^***	4.944
Male	0.544	0.525	−0.019	0.534
Household Characteristics
Rural	0.644	0.683	0.039	0.665
Western region	0.123	0.0948	−0.028	0.108
Eastern region	0.128	0.136	0.008	0.132
Northern region	0.422	0.474	0.052^*	0.449
Southern region	0.327	0.296	−0.032	0.311
Household size	6.921	7.113	0.192	7.022
Household total expenditure per capita (US$)	293.8	276.2	−17.60	284.6
Head of Household Characteristics
Married	0.851	0.865	0.014	0.859
Age	43.22	45.33	2.11^***	44.33
Male	0.759	0.748	−0.01	0.753
Christian	0.175	0.157	−0.017	0.165
No education	0.693	0.752	0.059^**	0.724
Observations	761	872		1633

ISSN: 2191-1991