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In addition, 10 unmanipulated control male littermates were behaviorally assessed in order to confirm baseline validity of the sham treatment (and no differences between shams and unmanipulated controls were seen for any measure).

Also, bowel habits were evaluated only through a self-reported questionnaire that was administered once at the baseline; the reproducibility and validity of the responses of subjects were therefore not confirmed.

Various robustness exercises confirm the validity of the baseline estimates.

Overall, our robustness exercises justify the validity of the baseline results presented in Section 5. Table 15 reports the results of our second robustness exercise.

We find that the results from the regressions with alternative control areas are reasonably similar to the results obtained in our baseline analysis, which justifies the validity of the results presented and discussed in Section 5. Similar to our main results, the likelihood of having an informal job is significantly lower in the treatment area irrespective of the control area.

This allows for a margin of error of 15% (or in the extreme case where individual wages are underestimated and hours of work overestimated, a − 7.5% margin of error for wages and + 7.5% margin of error for hours of work).9 Second, we confirm the validity of the baseline estimations with LFS using alternative datasets.

A small sample size and incomplete baseline data also weakened the validity of the tests.

However, the exclusion of patients who are not clinically stable has the major advantage that all patients are clinically stable at baseline which improves the internal validity of the study.

The validity of the baseline questionnaire was previously assessed by comparing FFQ  data with the average of four 1-week-weighted diet records among 129 randomly selected women of the cohort.

However, since no midwives at the study sites had previously attended any training on evidence-based standards for obstetric care, it is unlikely that their involvement in baseline data collection affected the validity of the quantitative data.

The validity of the baseline varies over the season, with lowest variance in the spring and fall and largest variation during winter (since in this time of year, influenza is often present, hence, very few data points are used in the estimation).