The spillover effect of midwife attrition from the Nigerian midwives service scheme

Table 5 The estimated “spillover” effect of the MSS on urban respondents

Outcomes	Antenatal visits			Delivery sites
Outcomes	Public sector clinics	Private sector clinics	Other sites/no antenatal care	Public sector clinics	Private sector clinics	Other sites/home
Spillover effect	0.017	−0.004	−0.011	0.041**	−0.009	− 0.020
	(0.026)	(0.015)	(0.011)	(0.015)	(0.010)	(0.014)
Pre-MSS trend	0.003	0.001	−0.004	−0.003	0.004	0.004
	(0.006)	(0.005)	(0.004)	(0.005)	(0.004)	(0.006)
Observations	10,660	10,660	11,374	11,516	11,516	11,516
R-squared	0.158	0.250	0.197	0.120	0.246	0.362
Northern region
Spillover effect	0.027	−0.019	−0.003	0.054**	−0.015	− 0.044*
	(0.028)	(0.013)	(0.014)	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.013)
Pre-MSS trend	−0.003	0.005	−0.0028	− 0.008	0.008	0.004
	(0.008)	(0.008)	(0.006)	(0.004)	(0.007)	(0.008)
Observations	5163	5163	5404	5514	5514	5514
R-squared	0.116	0.164	0.226	0.166	0.188	0.357
Southern region
Spillover effect	0.001	0.011	−0.014	0.018	0.002	0.008
	(0.053)	(0.030)	(0.019)	(0.031)	(0.018)	(0.016)
Pre-MSS trend	0.009	−0.002	−0.005	0.001	−0.001	0.005
	(0.012)	(0.009)	(0.007)	(0.010)	(0.003)	(0.009)
Observations	5497	5497	5970	6002	6002	6002
R-squared	0.133	0.145	0.120	0.092	0.145	0.181

Robust standard errors are in parentheses. *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1 Pre-MSS trend, pre-implementation trend (i.e. the trend in the indicated outcome prior to implementation of the midwives service scheme)

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