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Table 4 Financial inclusion and income inequality (fixed effect estimation)

From: Does financial inclusion reduce poverty and income inequality in developing countries? A panel data analysis

Variables

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

lngini

lngini

lngini

lngini

lngini

cfii

− 0.131*** (0.0332)

− 0.121*** (0.0361)

− 0.113*** (0.0330)

− 0.109*** (0.0332)

− 0.101*** (0.0343)

lngdppc

 

− 0.0204 (0.0293)

− 0.0415 (0.0315)

− 0.0288 (0.0423)

− 0.0290 (0.0476)

lnssenroll

 

− 0.00766 (0.0248)

− 0.0150 (0.0236)

− 0.00414 (0.0391)

0.00109 (0.0391)

lninflation

 

− 0.00284 (0.00178)

− 0.00246 (0.00184)

− 0.00149 (0.00195)

− 0.00182 (0.00210)

rule

  

0.0559** (0.0215)

0.0504* (0.0277)

0.0529* (0.0276)

lntradeopen

  

− 0.000612 (0.0102)

− 0.0216 (0.0231)

− 0.0217 (0.0229)

lnict

   

− 0.00303 (0.00563)

− 0.00299 (0.00533)

lnmobile

   

− 0.00577 (0.00568)

− 0.00497 (0.00553)

lnpcredit

    

− 0.00555 (0.0122)

lngovtexp

    

− 0.0155 (0.0232)

Constant

3.753*** (0.00762)

3.945*** (0.200)

4.174*** (0.225)

4.154*** (0.350)

4.191*** (0.392)

Observations

953

654

633

558

551

R-squared

0.162

0.190

0.253

0.287

0.291

Number of id

108

95

94

87

85

  1. The dependent variable is income inequality measured by Gini coefficient. For details of the explanatory variables, see Appendix B. All standard errors are robust and reported in parentheses. The symbols ***, **, and * indicate statistical significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% level, respectively