Table 4.
Benchmark regression: household financial literacy and relative poverty.
Variables |
Poverty (1) |
Poverty (2) |
Vulnerability (3) |
Vulnerability (4) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Financial literacy | −0.1537*** | −0.1308** | −0.4630*** | −0.2831*** |
(0.0299) | (0.0179) | (0.0395) | (0.0235) | |
LN (Income) | – | −0.0172*** | – | −0.1843*** |
(0.0025) | – | (0.0095) | ||
LN (Net asset) | – | −0.0059* | – | −0.0108*** |
– | (0.0014) | – | (0.0037) | |
LN (Network) | – | −0.0038*** | – | −0.0017** |
– | (0.0029) | – | (0.0015) | |
Gender | 0.0073** | 0.0068** | 0.0164** | 0.0147** |
(0.0037) | (0.0032) | (0.0240) | (0.0215) | |
Age | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.0025*** | 0.0016*** |
(0.0002) | (0.0002) | (0.0014) | (0.0012) | |
Edu | −0.0019*** | −0.0015*** | −0.0010*** | −0.0008*** |
(0.0054) | (0.0048) | (0.0019) | (0.0018) | |
Marriage | −0.0037** | −0.0026** | −0.0040** | −0.0027** |
(0.0043) | (0.0037) | (0.0042) | (0.0033) | |
Scale | 0.0045*** | 0.0037*** | 0.1842*** | 0.1761*** |
(0.0017) | (0.0017) | (0.0047) | (0.0046) | |
Health | −0.0084*** | −0.0082*** | −0.0173*** | −0.0172*** |
(0.0016) | (0.0015) | (0.0036) | (0.0036) | |
Raise | 0.0168** | 0.0139** | 0.0285** | 0.0279** |
(0.0174) | (0.0162) | (0.0483) | (0.0475) | |
Agricultural | 0.0073*** | 0.0072*** | 0.3824*** | 0.3819*** |
(0.0017) | (0.0016) | (0.0315) | (0.0310) | |
Non-agriculture | −0.0138*** | −0.0136*** | −0.0895*** | −0.0892*** |
(0.0174) | (0.0174) | (0.0064) | (0.0063) | |
Economic | −0.1498*** | −0.1475*** | −0.2176*** | −0.2168*** |
(0.0048) | (0.0046) | (0.0102) | (0.0009) | |
Province fixed effect | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Observations | 10,846 | 10,846 | 10,846 | 10,846 |
*, **, and *** denote significant at 10, 5, and 1% levels, respectively. The standard errors are reported in parentheses.