The impact of the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) on short and long term social, economic, education and fertility outcomes: a cluster randomized controlled trial in Zambia

Table 3 Estimated difference-in-differences (DID) for intent-to-treat (ITT), results from linear regressions with girl-level fixed effects

	Round 3			Round 5
	DID coef	95% CI		DID coef	95% CI
Social assets
Self-efficacy score [0–10]	0.100	−0.165	0.366	0.310*	0.024	0.595
Had a safe space in community to meet with friends	0.082*	0.017	0.146	0.012	−0.048	0.071
Positive gender attitudes score [0–7]	−0.010	−0.196	0.177	0.003	−0.229	0.234
Non-acceptability of IPV	−0.007	−0.067	0.053	0.007	−0.059	0.073
Economic assets
Financial literacy score [0–9]	0.243*	0.010	0.476	0.209	−0.056	0.474
Saved money in the past year	0.067**	0.018	0.115	0.067**	0.020	0.113
Health assets
Fertile period and contraceptive methods knowledge score [0–11]	0.289**	0.095	0.483	0.268*	0.056	0.481
HIV knowledge score [0–11]	0.107	−0.263	0.477	0.107	− 0.270	0.485
Sexual behavior among girls ages 15 and older who had ever had sex
Used condom at first sex^a	0.047	−0.042	0.136	0.010	−0.053	0.073
Agreed to having had transactional sex	−0.119*	−0.234	− 0.005	−0.118*	− 0.219	− 0.017
Education outcomes
Completed grade 7	−0.004	− 0.041	0.033	0.017	−0.024	0.058
Completed grade 9	−0.002	− 0.038	0.034	− 0.015	− 0.062	0.033
Fertility outcomes among girls ages 15 and older
Ever married	0.011	−0.046	0.068	0.023	−0.057	0.103
Ever had sex	0.043	−0.011	0.098	0.069*	0.010	0.127
Ever pregnant	−0.013	−0.078	0.052	0.033	−0.035	0.102
Ever given birth	0.006	−0.059	0.071	0.028	−0.039	0.095

All models adjust for age. Robust standard errors adjusted for clusters at the CSA level
*** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05, † p < 0.1
^a Estimated as simple differences at each round between intervention and control arms excluding girls who had ever had sex at baseline and adjusting for age and study site

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