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Table 7 Adjusted regression, treatment is receiving financial remittances

From: Financial remittances, trans-border conversations, and the state

 

Ensure well-being

Create jobs

Reduce inequality

 

OLS

PSM

OLS

PSM

OLS

PSM

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Remittances

0.005

0.033

0.006

0.320

0.043

0.274

 

[0.029]

[0.232]

[0.028]

[0.202]

[0.028]

[0.187]

Contact

0.016**

0.125**

0.021***

0.013

0.008

0.068

 

[0.007]

[0.058]

[0.006]

[0.048]

[0.006]

[0.050]

Gov’t efficiency

0.023***

0.041

0.018***

0.033

0.030***

0.035

 

[0.005]

[0.044]

[0.005]

[0.045]

[0.005]

[0.044]

Political interest

−0.014*

−0.003

0.019**

−0.029

−0.036***

−0.008

 

[0.008]

[0.080]

[0.007]

[0.072]

[0.007]

[0.074]

Intercept

5.116***

5.242***

5.736***

6.488***

5.683***

6.374***

 

[0.072]

[0.625]

[0.070]

[0.636]

[0.070]

[0.649]

Observations

53,830

1,622

54,009

1,630

53,711

1,629

R-squared

0.042

0.104

0.061

0.113

0.061

0.186

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

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