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

Table 9.

The combined effects of financial inclusion and mobile use (employing two-years lagged variables)

Variables Dependent: poverty Dependent: inequality
(85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98)
FE-GLS FGLS FE-GLS FE-GLS FGLS FE-GLS FE-GLS FE-GLS FE-GLS FE-GLS FGLS FE-GLS FE-GLS FE-GLS
(FI_1 x MOB) t-2 − 0.0339*** − 0.00540***
(0.00989) (0.00136)
(FI_2 x MOV) t-2 − 0.0225** − 0.000407
(0.00900) (0.00229)
(ATMS x MOB) t-2 − 0.0444*** − 0.00540***
(0.0104) (0.000967)
(DEP1K x MOB) t-2 − 0.0191 − 0.00477***
(0.0127) (0.00139)
(ACC1K x MOB) t-2 − 0.0140** − 0.00578***
(0.00606) (0.00118)
(BOR1K x MOB) t-2 − 0.0515*** − 0.00374***
(0.0118) (0.00115)
(LOANS x MOB) t-2 − 0.0347*** − 0.00684***
(0.00848) (0.00155)
(DEPGDP x MOB) t-2 − 0.0312*** − 0.00681***
(0.00991) (0.00178)
GDPPC − 2.548*** − 0.206 − 1.757*** − 1.595*** − 0.386** − 1.608*** − 1.602*** − 0.207*** − 0.146*** − 0.224*** − 0.00512 − 0.280*** − 0.194*** − 0.215***
(0.584) (0.197) (0.516) (0.230) (0.170) (0.171) (0.218) (0.0716) (0.0470) (0.0597) (0.0274) (0.0456) (0.0450) (0.0451)
FEM 0.387 1.173 2.073 1.188* 1.990** 1.364** 1.203* − 0.640*** − 0.283** − 0.315 − 0.274*** − 0.382** − 0.211 − 0.197
(1.563) (0.731) (1.613) (0.703) (0.793) (0.654) (0.649) (0.210) (0.138) (0.201) (0.0983) (0.150) (0.135) (0.135)
RURAL 0.471 1.557*** 2.299*** 2.272*** 1.336*** 1.622*** 1.770*** − 0.200** 0.0566 − 0.0615 0.0496* − 0.0595 0.0521 0.0456
(0.864) (0.208) (0.669) (0.500) (0.145) (0.345) (0.349) (0.0902) (0.0594) (0.0805) (0.0285) (0.0677) (0.0573) (0.0579)
UNEMP 0.293* 0.562*** 0.435*** 0.377*** 0.858*** 0.408*** 0.370*** 0.0626*** 0.0259** 0.0324* 0.0254 0.0130 0.0259** 0.0121
(0.161) (0.0942) (0.144) (0.0654) (0.106) (0.0536) (0.0558) (0.0238) (0.0130) (0.0171) (0.0166) (0.0141) (0.0130) (0.0126)
ROL − 0.113 − 0.579*** − 0.403* − 0.544*** − 0.722*** − 0.478*** − 0.472*** 0.103*** 0.0115 0.0919*** 0.0238 0.0467** 0.0255 0.0316*
(0.250) (0.135) (0.213) (0.161) (0.122) (0.125) (0.126) (0.0399) (0.0193) (0.0238) (0.0212) (0.0217) (0.0195) (0.0190)
INF − 0.00415 − 0.00320 − 0.00468 − 0.00713** 0.00298 − 0.00712** − 0.00688** 0.000147 − 0.000749 − 0.00128* − 0.000478 − 0.00146** − 0.00133** − 0.00148**
(0.00600) (0.00454) (0.00537) (0.00330) (0.00456) (0.00287) (0.00301) (0.000844) (0.000581) (0.000703) (0.000698) (0.000622) (0.000617) (0.000623)
Constant − 6.816* − 7.767** 4.898***
(4.075) (3.590) (0.537)
Hausman 42.98*** 10.65 16.91** 16.17** 11.22 15.53** 17.88** 42.62*** 13.28* 37.51*** 7.27 34.83*** 16.71** 17.80**
Mod. Wald 80.5*** 970*** 1137*** 2676*** 1272*** 1776*** 2588*** 432*** 1358*** 793*** 1477*** 790*** 1350*** 1352***
Wooldridge 14.44*** 14.45*** 14.83*** 18.54*** 11.25*** 13.63*** 13.37*** 8.68** 6.10** 16.25*** 61.87*** 4.84* 9.92** 9.25**
Wald Chi2 9619*** 329*** 5477*** 38,926*** 838*** 57,110*** 43,919*** 1,933,036*** 6,919,726*** 8,997,241*** 82.31*** 7,608,367*** 8,110,782*** 8,089,156***
Observations 62 116 81 98 89 116 116 62 116 81 98 89 116 116
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; FGLS, Feasible Generalized Least Squares