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 4 Estimated difference-in-differences (DID) for treatment-on-the-treated (TOT), results from two-stage least squares IV 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]	0.290	−0.470	1.051	0.892*	0.076	1.708
Had a safe space in community to meet with friends	0.236*	0.049	0.423	0.033	−0.138	0.204
Positive gender attitudes score [0–7]	− 0.028	−0.561	0.504	0.008	−0.651	0.666
Non-acceptability of IPV	−0.019	−0.190	0.152	0.020	−0.167	0.207
Economic assets
Financial literacy score [0–9]	0.701*	0.032	1.369	0.601	−0.153	1.354
Saved money in the past year	0.193**	0.055	0.331	0.191**	0.058	0.325
Health assets
Fertile period and contraceptive methods knowledge score [0–11]	0.831**	0.275	1.388	0.770*	0.163	1.377
HIV knowledge score [0–11]	0.309	−0.746	1.364	0.309	− 0.762	1.379
Sexual behavior among girls ages 15 and older who had ever had sex
Used condom at first sex^a	0.187	−0.170	0.544	0.032	−0.171	0.235
Agreed to having had transactional sex	−0.524*	−1.032	−0.016	− 0.515*	−0.967	− 0.063
Education outcomes
Completed grade 7	−0.012	−0.118	0.094	0.050	−0.067	0.166
Completed grade 9	−0.005	−0.108	0.098	−0.042	− 0.178	0.094
Fertility outcomes among girls ages 15 and older
Ever married	0.041	−0.166	0.249	0.083	−0.200	0.366
Ever had sex	0.161	−0.034	0.355	0.246*	0.036	0.455
Ever pregnant	−0.042	− 0.274	0.190	0.115	− 0.128	0.357
Ever given birth	0.024	−0.207	0.256	0.098	−0.140	0.337

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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