From: Remittances, expenditure patterns, and gender: parametric and semiparametric evidence from Ecuador
Dependent variable: Remittance receipt | |||
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Gender of the household head | Both | Male | Female |
Log(per‐capita expenditures) | 0.035*** | 0.073*** | 0.071*** |
(0.004) | (0.011) | (0.011) | |
Log(household size) | 0.050*** | 0.098*** | 0.102*** |
(0.007) | (0.018) | (0.018) | |
Prop. of children < 15 | ‐0.032 | 0.119* | 0.087 |
(0.017) | (0.050) | (0.044) | |
Prop. of adults >= 15 with prim. educ. | ‐0.012 | 0.018 | 0.002 |
(0.015) | (0.034) | (0.033) | |
Prop. of adults >= 15 with sec. educ. | 0.064*** | 0.110* | ‐0.023 |
(0.019) | (0.047) | (0.047) | |
Prop. of adults >= 15 with ter. educ. | 0.090*** | 0.089 | 0.052 |
(0.022) | (0.053) | (0.056) | |
Rural area | ‐0.033*** | ‐0.006 | ‐0.039 |
(0.007) | (0.020) | (0.020) | |
Remittances in the community in 1999 | 2.069*** | 2.080*** | 1.721*** |
(0.106) | (0.285) | (0.239) | |
‐sec. educ. | ‐0.900*** | ‐0.950 | 1.342* |
(0.227) | (0.596) | (0.571) | |
‐ter. educ. | ‐2.031*** | ‐1.426* | ‐0.922 |
(0.256) | (0.642) | (0.713) | |
Constant | ‐0.183*** | ‐0.540*** | ‐0.460*** |
(0.037) | (0.089) | (0.091) | |
R‐squared | 0.057 | 0.094 | 0.113 |
Observations | 12488 | 2211 | 2210 |
F‐statistic of the instruments F(3,N‐k‐1) | 165 | 23 | 42 |