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. 2021 May 12;204:109892. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109892

Table 3.

Economic incidence of COVID-19 and number of epidemics in the past.

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GDP
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GDP
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GDP
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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
# epidemics 0.173** 0.159** 0.007 0.113 0.096 −0.057 0.174** 0.130* −0.020
(0.019) (0.028) (0.945) (0.171) (0.245) (0.575) (0.015) (0.058) (0.813)
Spatial lag 0.060 0.002 −0.062 0.058 0.059 −0.099 0.060 0.106 −0.012
(0.666) (0.986) (0.666) (0.700) (0.683) (0.533) (0.683) (0.453) (0.937)
NPIs index −0.100* −0.112* −0.257*** −0.259*** −0.179*** −0.186***
(0.084) (0.080) (0.000) (0.000) (0.001) (0.001)
Urban −0.078 −0.119 −0.054
(0.457) (0.266) (0.557)
Temperature 0.039 −0.067 −0.056
(0.688) (0.514) (0.550)
Household size 0.026 −0.215* 0.060
(0.808) (0.066) (0.546)
GNI per capita −0.151 −0.241 −0.211
(0.312) (0.127) (0.111)
Tourism share −0.159** −0.275*** −0.231***
(0.031) (0.000) (0.000)
Additional controls Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Observations 161 138 118 162 140 119 161 137 117
R-squared 0.432 0.502 0.550 0.183 0.235 0.359 0.293 0.307 0.425

Notes: () [] denotes statistical significance at 10% (5%) [1%]. Robust p-values in parentheses. Spatial regressions based on contiguity. Regressands standardized; regressors in logs and standardized. Additional control variables: Continent; EME; “Large country”. For details on controls and other variables see footnote to Table 1.