Skip to main content

Table 4 Differential effects of local digital lending development for rural and urban dwellers

From: Local digital lending development and the incidence of deprivation in Kenya

 

(1)

(2)

 

Food deprivation

Health deprivation

Urban

− 0.274***

− 0.344***

 

(0.095)

(0.089)

Rural

− 0.437***

− 0.400***

 

(0.100)

(0.086)

Regional variance (\(\sigma_{u}^{2}\))

0.084***

0.062***

 

(0.017)

(0.010)

ICC

0.077

0.058

Year dummy

Yes

Yes

Controls

Yes

Yes

No. of observations

16,176

16,167

Number of regions

46

46

  1. The Table reports average marginal effects. Estimation is carried out using Eq. (5). Standard errors are adjusted for via cluster bootstrapping with 400 replications. Robust standard errors are in parentheses
  2. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, * p < 0.1