Tanzania country hire a consultant company. The company choose you to carrying out an impact evaluation...

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Tanzania country hire a consultant company. The company choose you to carrying out an impact evaluation on a pilot program to provide individuals age 17-27 with a Conditional Cash Transfer payment if all of the individuals willing to participate each week for 20 weeks in a school on computer programming. The goal of the program CCT program is to improve the individual skills and wages over time. The Tanzania Government and your company asked you to measure the impact of the program on wage rates three years after the program being implement. The treatment will be 140 treatment and 190 control villages were chosen by the Tanzania government advisor from over 20,000 villages. However, in the treatment villages, there was a 37% participation rate. Next, surveys of people aged 17-27 were carried out at the baseline and three years after the implementation of the program in both the treatment and control villages. You use the table below that shows the baseline comparisons between the treatment and comparison villages. Treatment Comparison Villages Villages Household characteristics mean mean (N=120) (N=170) Difference in T-statistic means Age of individual 21.0 25.00 3.68* Mother's education (years) 8.5 8.15 .35 35 1.15 Number of siblings 3.7 4.4 -.7 2.25 Family Land ownership 5.0 8.0 -3.00 10.55** (acres) Wage rate at baseline 7.25 7.85 .65 3.85* ($s) House has bathroom 1.775 1.75 0.025 1.05 (=1) Head of household is 0.30 0.29 .01 0.67 female (=1) Tanzania country hire a consultant company. The company choose you to carrying out an impact evaluation on a pilot program to provide individuals age 17-27 with a Conditional Cash Transfer payment if all of the individuals willing to participate each week for 20 weeks in a school on computer programming. The goal of the program CCT program is to improve the individual skills and wages over time. The Tanzania Government and your company asked you to measure the impact of the program on wage rates three years after the program being implement. The treatment will be 140 treatment and 190 control villages were chosen by the Tanzania government advisor from over 20,000 villages. However, in the treatment villages, there was a 37% participation rate. Next, surveys of people aged 17-27 were carried out at the baseline and three years after the implementation of the program in both the treatment and control villages. You use the table below that shows the baseline comparisons between the treatment and comparison villages. Treatment Comparison Villages Villages Household characteristics mean mean (N=120) (N=170) Difference in T-statistic means Age of individual 21.0 25.00 3.68* Mother's education (years) 8.5 8.15 .35 35 1.15 Number of siblings 3.7 4.4 -.7 2.25 Family Land ownership 5.0 8.0 -3.00 10.55** (acres) Wage rate at baseline 7.25 7.85 .65 3.85* ($s) House has bathroom 1.775 1.75 0.025 1.05 (=1) Head of household is 0.30 0.29 .01 0.67 female (=1)