Decentralization and Corruption in the Philippines

Table 11: Explaining Education Outcomes
Beta coefficients are reported
NEAT SCORES
SATISFACTION WITH SCHOOLS
WLS CLUSTER RANDOM
EFFECT
WLS CLUSTER RANDOM
EFFECT
11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6
Media Index
0.571*** 0.576*** 0.575*** -0.031 0.034 0.034
(2.722) (3.244) (3.095) (-0.318) (1.138) (0.035)
Voting Index
-0.010 0.011 -0.011 0.098 0.102 0.098
(-0.075) (0.017) (-0.193) (0.812) (0.849) (0.894)
Log Income
0.247 0.238 0.244* 0.039 0.042 -0.038
(1.502) (1.503) (1.674) (0.323) (0.322) (-0.071)
Inequality
0.217 0.214 0.211 -0.204 -0.204 -0.212*
(1.445) (1.242) (1.329) (-0.990) (-0.622) (-1.850)
Education
-0.079 -0.077 0.071 -0.042 -0.043 -0.040
(-0.450) (-0.716) (0.179) (-0.369) (-0.285) (-0.052)
Urban
-0.208 -0.217 -0.231 -0.126 -0.119 -0.120
(-0.433) (-0.282) (1.636) (-0.985) (-1.234) (-0.747)
Social Differences
-0.100* -0.100** -0.087 0.035 0.033 0.034
(-1.875) (-2.273) (-0.604) (0.217) (0.632) (0.573)
Corruption
-0.097 -0.088 -0.090 -0.302** -0.304** -0.333***
(-1.429) (1.642) (-1.301) (2.160) (-2.313) (2.646)
N 44 44 44 70 70 70
F test 6.23** 2.84** 2.40* 1.17
Chi sq 18.83* 12.90
R2 0.42 0.24 0.41 0.14 0.09 0.13
t stats below coefficients
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