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Table 8 Robustness Check: Change Model Specification

From: Escaping from poverty trap: a choice between government transfer payments and public services

Variable

Introduce poverty status in GTP model

Introduce poverty status in GTP and PTP model

H_income

GTP

PTP

Poverty

H_income

GTP

PTP

Poverty

Panel A

H_income

 

0.1201c (10.57)

0.0274c (3.14)

−0.0046c

(−13.12)

 

0.1235c (10.84)

−0.0244 (−1.23)

−0.0047c

(−13.74)

Poverty

 

277.04a (1.83)

   

328.90b (2.17)

−1116.8c (−3.82)

 

GTP

  

0.7783c (8.3)

0.013c (5.23)

  

0.4482c (5.11)

0.0134c (5.63)

PTP

   

−0.032c (−12.22)

   

−0.034c (−13.33)

Insurance

1029.67c (10.21)

  

−0.0307c (−3.77)

1038.55c (9.54)

  

−0.0178c (−3.10)

Water

293.44c (2.98)

  

−0.0303c (−3.50)

152.82 (1.43)

  

−0.0272c (−3.46)

Toilet

1273.93c (11.85)

  

−0.0212b (−2.13)

1330.35c (11.93)

  

−0.0156b (−1.96)

Hygiene

348.51c (3.24)

  

−0.0382c (−4.61)

251.74b (2.14)

  

−0.0273c (−3.88)

Controls

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Year

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

County

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Chi2()

7590.53c

3512.1c

3333.9c

2227.98c

7579.52c

3509.7c

3916.7c

2262.28c

obs

30628

30628

30628

30628

30628

30628

30628

30628

Panle B

Mechanisms

Crowd-out Effect

−0.3822c (−4.54)

−0.1674c (−2.60)

Inductive Effect

−2.6715c (−42.66)

−2.6535c (−42.28)

  1. Notes: We use the poverty1 variable to measure the poverty status. aSignificantly at 10% level.bSignificantly at 5% level.cSignificantly at 1% level