Comparative Migration Studies

Table 9 Financial and social remittances and the perception of state efficacy (baseline)

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

	Gov’t efficacy	Gov’t efficacy
	(1)	(2)
Remittances	0.000657
	[0.027]
Family abroad	0.0400 ^**
	[0.019]
Dependence		−0.00688
		[0.010]
Contact		0.0134 ^**
		[0.006]
Political interest	−0.209***	−0.209***
	[0.008]	[0.008]
Intercept	4.795^***	4.790^***
	[0.067]	[0.067]
Observations	55076	54929
R ²	0.137	0.137
Sociodemographic controls	Yes	Yes
Country fixed effects	Yes	Yes
Year fixed effects	Yes	Yes

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

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