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Table 6 Full estimates for the sample selection model: the migrant

From: Remittances, expenditure patterns, and gender: parametric and semiparametric evidence from Ecuador

 

Parametric SY method

 

Food

Housing

Health

Education

Log(per‐capita expenditures)

‐0.123***

0.054***

‐0.015***

‐0.028***

 

(0.011)

(0.014)

(0.003)

(0.010)

Log(household size)

‐0.130***

0.042**

0.002

0.010

 

(0.019)

(0.017)

(0.007)

(0.029)

Prop. of children < 15

0.064

‐0.028

‐0.023*

0.037

 

(0.040)

(0.036)

(0.012)

(0.040)

Prop. of adults >= 15 with prim. educ.

‐0.059

0.040

0.037***

‐0.007

 

(0.057)

(0.040)

(0.013)

(0.015)

Prop. of adults >= 15 with sec. educ.

‐0.089

0.007

0.025*

‐0.005

 

(0.058)

(0.039)

(0.014)

(0.015)

Prop. of adults >= 15 with ter. educ.

‐0.118*

‐0.058

0.024*

0.083***

 

(0.061)

(0.045)

(0.013)

(0.029)

Rural area

‐0.131***

0.060***

‐0.001

‐0.004

 

(0.019)

(0.019)

(0.006)

(0.006)

Male receiver

‐0.010

‐0.026

‐0.001

‐0.020**

 

(0.022)

(0.020)

(0.009)

(0.008)

Male migrant

‐0.002

‐0.002

0.004

‐0.014*

 

(0.018)

(0.017)

(0.007)

(0.008)

Selection term I

  

0.072

0.034

   

(0.051)

(0.052)

Constant

1.681***

‐0.270**

0.115***

0.236*

 

(0.103)

(0.120)

(0.032)

(0.136)

R‐squared

0.245

0.070

0.273

0.463

N

616

616

616

616

  1. Note: Bootstrapped standard errors in parentheses (with 500 reps.): * significant at 10%; ** significant at 5%; *** significant at 1%.