The effect of increasing the supply of skilled health providers on pregnancy and birth outcomes: evidence from the midwives service scheme in Nigeria

Table 6 Estimated effects of MSS on maternal complications

	Number	β (95 % CI)	p-value	%D
Intra-partum complications
Average effect	5295	0.012 (−0.028, 0.051)	0.556	0.250
Year 1	5295	0.003 (−0.044, 0.045)	0.912	0.063
Year 2	5295	0.014 (−0.035, 0.063)	0.577	0.292
Year 3	5295	0.020 (−0.033, 0.073)	0.466	0.417
Post-partum complications
Average effect	5295	0.002 (−0.033, 0.038)	0.891	0.048
Year 1	5295	−0.014 (−0.053, 0.024)	0.469	−0.333
Year 2	5295	0.010 (−0.038, 0.052)	0.660	0.238
Year 3	5295	0.013 (−0.037, 0.063)	0.612	0.310

β denotes the estimated effect of the MSS program, and is obtained using a differences-in-differences specification that includes month of birth and community fixed effects and controls for maternal and child characteristics. %D expresses the estimated program effect as a percentage of the baseline average of the outcome variable. Standard errors in parentheses are clustered at the community level

ISSN: 1472-6963