Table 3.
Baseline specification system three stage least squares, non-OECD countries
Specification | (1) | (2) | (3) |
---|---|---|---|
Coefficient | Globalization | Freedoms | Convergence |
Globalization | 0.0388*** | 1.0825*** | |
(0.003) | (0.024) | ||
Freedoms | 4.9847*** | −4.0641*** | |
(0.175) | (0.276) | ||
Convergence | 0.5519*** | −0.0058*** | |
(0.012) | (0.002) | ||
Lagged number of transitions to democracy | 0.5167*** | ||
(0.036) | |||
Lagged constitutional age | 0.0499*** | ||
(0.003) | |||
Lagged total number of democracies | −0.0027* | ||
(0.001) | |||
Lagged fuel export dependence | −0.5084*** | ||
(0.083) | |||
Socialist legal origin | −1.2001*** | ||
(0.143) | |||
English colony | 0.4241*** | ||
(0.071) | |||
French colony | −0.1888** | ||
(0.085) | |||
Spanish colony | −0.0666 | ||
(0.084) | |||
Lagged urban population | 0.0071*** | ||
(0.002) | |||
Lagged population density | −0.0002*** | ||
(0.000) | |||
Latin America | 0.5222 | −0.6627*** | −5.6053*** |
(1.083) | (0.155) | (1.557) | |
Middle East | −5.6110*** | −1.5136*** | 13.2700*** |
(1.197) | (0.158) | (1.702) | |
Africa | 2.1973* | −1.3464*** | −8.3420*** |
(1.126) | (0.156) | (1.619) | |
Asia | −1.3291 | −1.0177*** | −2.1775 |
(1.267) | (0.146) | (1.889) | |
Lagged total financial crises | −0.1240*** | ||
(0.031) | |||
Lagged inflation | −0.0005 | 0.0005 | |
(0.000) | (0.001) | ||
Log distance from the rest of the world | −4.9008*** | 8.4924*** | |
(0.563) | (0.843) | ||
Log area | 0.0909 | −0.7287*** | |
(0.175) | (0.262) | ||
Log population | 1.9957*** | −2.9045*** | |
(0.243) | (0.371) | ||
Investment rate | 18.8558*** | ||
(2.916) | |||
Constant | 51.2898*** | 2.7195*** | −70.8752*** |
(4.469) | (0.173) | (6.844) | |
Observations | 2752 | 2752 | 2752 |
R-squared | 0.2865 | 0.4823 | 0.3934 |
The system is estimated by three-stage least squares. Time and countries dummies are included but not presented for reasons of parsimony. Heteroskedastic-consistent standard errors are in parentheses. ***, ** and * denote significant coefficients, respectively at the 1, 5 and 10% confidence levels