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Table 5 Proximity to former Habsburg Empire’s border and former communist extermination prisons and forced labour camps and present-day corruption behaviour in the public health system, ordered probit regressions, baseline specifications

From: Historical origins of corruption in the Romanian public health system - path dependency and contagion effect

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

Individual-level controls

Yes

Yes

Yes

Geographic controls

Yes

Yes

Yes

Macroeconomic controls

Yes

Yes

Yes

County-fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Distance_nearest_gulag_under43km

0.3614****

0.2747***

0.2894****

 

(0.0899)

(0.0861)

(0.0859)

1.Former_Habsburg_Empire_In#1.Distance_border_categ1

1.1988**

  
 

(0.4695)

  

1.Former_Habsburg_Empire_In#2.Distance_border_categ1

0.4598

  
 

(0.3873)

  

1.Former_Habsburg_Empire_In#3.Distance_border_categ1

-0.8793***

  
 

(0.3219)

  

1.Former_Habsburg_Empire_In#1.Distance_border_categ2

 

0.6757*

 
  

(0.4075)

 

1.Former_Habsburg_Empire_In#2.Distance_border_categ2

 

-0.9016***

 
  

(0.3173)

 

1.Former_Habsburg_Empire_In#1.Distance_border_categ3

  

0.4965

   

(0.4167)

1.Former_Habsburg_Empire_In#2.Distance_border_categ3

  

-0.6946*

   

(0.3771)

N

1295

1295

1295

chi2

359.19

339.13

298.34

p

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

Pseudo R2

0.0775

0.0796

0.0672

AIC

3762.47

3749.92

3799.64

BIC

3979.46

3956.57

4006.29

AUROC (after probit)

0.7783

0.7747

0.7864

Goodness of fit (after probit)

0.0565

0.0375

0.1552

  1. Source: Author’s calculation in Stata 17 based on data from http://hartagulagului.ro/ merged with LiTS III [108]
  2. Notes. Standard errors are in parentheses. **** p < 0.001, *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1. Coefficient estimates are raw coefficients from ordered probit (oprobit) estimations