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. 2021 Aug 19;18(3):605–629. doi: 10.1007/s10368-021-00512-7

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