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. 2021 Jun 9;158(3):889–925. doi: 10.1007/s11205-021-02730-7

Table 4.

The combined effects of financial inclusion and mobile use

Variables Dependent: poverty Dependent: inequality
(15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28)
FE-GLS LIML FE-GLS FE-GLS LIML FE-GLS FE-GLS FE-GLS FE-GLS FE-GLS FGLS LIML FE-GLS FE-GLS
FI_1 x MOB − 0.0731*** − 0.00412***
(0.0159) (0.00132)
FI_2 x MOB − 0.0512 − 0.00211
(0.0562) (0.00196)
ATMS x MOB − 0.0492*** − 0.00576***
(0.0136) (0.00186)
DEP1K x MOB − 0.0148 0.000346
(0.0118) (0.00314)
ACC1K x MOB − 0.0137** − 0.00482***
(0.00638) (0.00129)
BOR1K x MOB − 0.0779* − 0.00381
(0.0417) (0.00366)
LOANS x MOB − 0.0255** − 0.00783***
(0.0106) (0.00191)
DEPGDP x MOB − 0.0228** − 0.00614***
(0.0111) (0.00200)
GDPPC − 0.0899 − 1.594*** − 1.568*** − 1.677*** − 2.096*** − 1.712*** − 1.817*** − 0.148** − 0.215*** − 0.428*** 0.0134 − 0.428*** − 0.111*** − 0.140***
(0.799) (0.435) (0.461) (0.247) (0.718) (0.219) (0.205) (0.0574) (0.0661) (0.122) (0.0256) (0.0825) (0.0383) (0.0388)
FEM − 1.155 1.241 0.620 − 0.0932 1.214 − 0.326 − 0.311 − 0.189 − 0.327 − 0.210 − 0.260** − 0.519** − 0.0672 − 0.0519
(2.240) (1.263) (1.436) (0.749) (1.715) (0.713) (0.709) (0.207) (0.197) (0.336) (0.112) (0.242) (0.130) (0.133)
RURAL 0.591 1.129* 1.992*** 1.555*** 0.612 1.212*** 1.218*** − 0.0527 − 0.0776 − 0.106 0.0472 − 0.216** 0.156*** 0.171***
(0.969) (0.599) (0.544) (0.449) (1.064) (0.345) (0.344) (0.0729) (0.0934) (0.122) (0.0304) (0.105) (0.0479) (0.0490)
UNEMP 0.464 0.314** 0.450*** 0.372*** 0.284 0.359*** 0.358*** 0.0380* − 0.00128 0.00840 0.0246* − 0.00197 0.0123 0.0157
(0.291) (0.136) (0.140) (0.0742) (0.176) (0.0606) (0.0619) (0.0211) (0.0229) (0.0363) (0.0142) (0.0256) (0.0117) (0.0122)
ROL − 0.0975 − 0.617*** − 0.259 − 0.551*** − 0.670** − 0.431*** − 0.425*** 0.0170 0.0225 0.0561 − 0.00347 0.0531 − 0.00376 0.00330
(0.478) (0.225) (0.168) (0.145) (0.334) (0.128) (0.127) (0.0272) (0.0335) (0.0502) (0.0172) (0.0415) (0.0163) (0.0165)
INF − 0.00783 − 0.00596 − 0.00738 − 0.00485 − 0.0191** 0.000223 − 0.000241 − 0.00112 − 0.00121 − 0.00188* − 0.000645 − 0.00151** − 0.00119*** − 0.00135***
(0.00888) (0.00857) (0.00556) (0.00394) (0.00939) (0.00280) (0.00279) (0.000693) (0.000920) (0.00101) (0.000600) (0.000723) (0.000384) (0.000396)
Constant 4.662***
(0.564)
Hausman 56.35*** 12.47* 22.09*** 20.29*** 14.31** 15.71** 17.13** 50.96*** 13.96* 43.74*** 8.26 40.0*** 15.74** 17.8**
Mod. Wald 113.53*** 1140.79*** 540.53*** 540.24*** 1846.40*** 1032.28*** 1101.33*** 269.10*** 422.03*** 170.24*** 316.59*** 98.91*** 605.01*** 405.68***
Wooldridge 65.870*** 11.489*** 13.485*** 8.179** 16.338*** 10.004*** 9.405*** 6.614** 8.104** 8.010** 15.763*** 8.388** 7.031** 7.283**
Endogeneity 3.484 3.605* 0.611 0.002 4.207** 0.233 0 2.315 0.433 0.395 0.79 2.840* 0.002 0
Wald Chi2 3757*** 6787*** 24,859*** 30,834.39*** 31,432.29*** 2,758,652*** 4,913,268*** 2,686,489*** 48.57*** 5,377,004*** 4,774,863***
F 26.51*** 25.53*** 24.23***
Observations 76 116 101 120 89 142 142 76 142 101 120 89 142 142
Countries 8 13 10 12 11 13 13 8 13 10 12 11 13 13

Standard errors in parentheses. *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.01. FE-GLS, Fixed-Effects Generalized Least Squares with country-specific dummy-variables and no intercept; LIML, Limited Information Maximum Likelihood estimation using lagged values as instruments, no constant is reported; FGLS, Feasible Generalized Least Squares