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Table 4 Female unemployment, active mobile money agents and procedure to start a business by a female

From: Female unemployment, mobile money innovations and doing business by females

 

Dependent variable: procedure to start a business by a female

Active mobile money agents per 100 000 adults (Oaa1)

Active mobile money agents per 1000 km2 (Oaa2)

OLS

Q.10

Q.25

Q.50

Q.75

Q.90

OLS

Q.10

Q.25

Q.50

Q.75

Q.90

Constant

0.194

− 5.432**

-4.854

0.258

1.614

4.064***

1.031

− 5.718*

− 4.043

− 3.170

5.426**

5.751**

(0.940)

(0.038)

(0.185)

(0.957)

(0.538)

(0.006)

(0.671)

(0.063)

(0.277)

(0.550)

(0.044)

(0.018)

FUmpl

0.053

0.044

0.020

0.127

0.058

− 0.036

0.009

− 0.012

0.0007

0.038

0.042

0.007

(0.341)

(0.392)

(0.786)

(0.195)

(0.277)

(0.217)

(0.853)

(0.803)

(0.990)

(0.669)

(0.352)

(0.859)

Oaa1

− 0.00005

0.003***

0.001

− 0.001

− 0.0009

− 0.0007

–-

–-

–-

–-

–-

–-

(0.953)

(0.003)

(0.230)

(0.559)

(0.385)

(0.220)

      

Oaa2

–

–

–

–

–

–

0.0004

0.001***

0.0006

− 0.0001

− 0.0009*

− 0.001**

      

(0.409)

(0.003)

(0.380)

(0.873)

(0.075)

(0.022)

FUmpl × Oaa1

− 0.0004

− 0.0006

− 0.0002

− 0.0005

− 0.00008

− 0.00009

–

–

–

–

–

–

(0.054)

(0.002)

(0.384)

(0.196)

(0.685)

(0.393)

      

FUmpl × Oaa2

–

–

–

–

–

–

− 0.0003

− 0.001***

− 0.0002

0.0002

0.0001

0.00002

      

(0.361)

(0.003)

(0.646)

(0.692)

(0.661)

(0.936)

SES

0.018

0.034**

0.061***

0.041

0.022

0.0001

0.022

0.037*

0.057**

0.063*

0.005

-0.005

(0.314)

(0.035)

(0.008)

(0.165)

(0.177)

(0.986)

(0.193)

(0.054)

(0.015)

(0.057)

(0.732)

(0.721)

Trade

0.010

0.057***

0.050***

− 0.014

− 0.012

− 0.013*

0.001

0.064***

0.047***

0.015

− 0.027**

− 0.023**

(0.381)

(0.000)

(0.006)

(0.533)

(0.340)

(0.054)

(0.905)

(0.000)

(0.005)

(0.522)

(0.022)

(0.028)

FSEmp

0.035*

0.049***

0.052**

0.043

0.036**

0.022**

0.028

0.051**

0.048**

0.052

0.019

0.022

(0.051)

(0.006)

(0.040)

(0.196)

(0.045)

(0.024)

(0.112)

(0.017)

(0.043)

(0.156)

(0.302)

(0.174)

CostBusiness

0.006

− 0.005

0.008

0.017

0.010

− 0.003

0.005

− 0.013

0.006

0.015

0.007

− 0.001

(0.521)

(0.442)

(0.401)

(0.214)

(0.162)

(0.380)

(0.614)

(0.131)

(0.562)

(0.314)

(0.289)

(0.809)

TimeBusiness

0.072***

0.089***

0.050

0.036

0.068***

0.118***

0.086***

0.102***

0.055*

0.045

0.040*

0.052**

(0.006)

(0.000)

(0.124)

(0.392)

(0.005)

(0.000)

(0.002)

(0.000)

(0.083)

(0.320)

(0.076)

(0.012)

Bankaccount

0.817

− 0.987*

− 1.624**

0.841

1.741***

2.597***

0.746

− 0.522

− 1.454*

− 0.383

1.638***

2.411***

(0.116)

(0.081)

(0.043)

(0.419)

(0.003)

(0.000)

(0.160)

(0.414)

(0.066)

(0.731)

(0.005)

(0.000)

Thresholds

na

na

na

na

na

na

na

na

na

na

na

na

R2/Pseudo R2

0.390

0.330

0.270

0.220

0.341

0.484

0.336

0.336

0.285

0.187

0.345

0.476

Fisher

6.94***

     

4.71***

     

Observations

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

69

  1. *,**,***: significance levels of 10%, 5% and 1% respectively. OLS: Ordinary Least Squares. R2 for OLS and Pseudo R2 for quantile regression. Lower quantiles (e.g., Q 0.1) signify nations where the procedure to start a business by a female is least.FUmpl: Female Unemployment. OAA1: Number of active mobile money agents per 100 000 adults. OAA2: Number of active mobile money agents per 1000 km2. SES: Secondary female high school enrollment rate. Trade: trade openness. CostBusiness: The cost it takes for a woman to set up a business. TimeBusiness: The time of women to set up a business. Bankaccount: dummy variable which takes the value of 1 if women can open bank accounts like men, 0 otherwise. na: not applicable because at least one estimated coefficient needed for the computation of the threshold is not significant. Bold values are significant estimated coefficients and the Fisher statistics