Financial remittances, trans-border conversations, and the state

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 3 Financial remittances and the role of the state (OLS)

	Create jobs	Ensure well-being	Reduce inequality	Create jobs	Ensure well-being	Reduce inequality
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Remittances	0.0261	0.0183	0.0390	−0.0614	−0.0689	0.0123
	[0.031]	[0.032]	[0.031]	[0.0516]	[0.0540]	[0.0497]
Contact-Low				0.00807	0.0281	0.0447^*
				[0.0276]	[0.0276]	[0.0267]
Contact-Medium				0.0479	−0.0230	0.00753
				[0.0351]	[0.0403]	[0.0356]
Contact-High				0.0635	0.0662	−0.000494
				[0.0402]	[0.0409]	[0.0403]
*RemittancesContact-Low**				0.0189	0.0429	0.0590
				[0.0908]	[0.0921]	[0.0864]
*RemittancesContact-Medium**				0.0296	0.108	−0.0500
				[0.0747]	[0.0795]	[0.0747]
*RemittancesContact-High**				0.161 ^**	0.125 ^*	0.123 ^*
				[0.0713]	[0.0743]	[0.0702]
Gov’t efficacy	−0.0131	−0.00262	0.00225	0.0183^***	0.0235^***	0.0304^***
	[0.010]	[0.010]	[0.010]	[0.00460]	[0.00474]	[0.00466]
Political interest	−0.00446	−0.0360^**	−0.0504^***	0.0189^**	−0.0145^*	−0.0361^***
	[0.015]	[0.016]	[0.015]	[0.00748]	[0.00761]	[0.00738]
Intercept	6.325^***	5.667^***	6.196^***	5.739^***	5.118^***	5.683^***
	[0.143]	[0.148]	[0.142]	[0.0701]	[0.0721]	[0.0696]
N	11799	11751	11741	54009	53830	53711
R ²	0.073	0.047	0.067	0.061	0.042	0.061
Sociodemographic controls	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Country fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Year fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Sociodemographic controls are age, age^2, gender, education, marital status, employment status, race, socioeconomic status
Robust standard errors in brackets, ^* p < 0.1 ^** p < 0.05, ^*** p < 0.01