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Dependent variable: government consumption in % of GDP 1993–97(1)(2)(3) Constant33.41722.63824.370 (8.095)(4.196)(3.872) Log population 1996–2.531**–2.080**–2.500** (–4.372)(–3.264)(–3.080) Log per capita income 1996–2.210**2.872** (3.445)(2.835) Urbanization rate 1997–––0.016 (–0.442) Population density 1996–––– Latin America dummy––––– Sub–Saharan Africa dummy––––– South East Asia dummy––––– OECD dummy––––0 Adj. R20.1190.1720.177 Number of observations125115103 Sources: IMF (national accounts); logarithm of GNP, per capita income and population density from Baratta (1999); urbanization rate from World Bank; t statistics based on White heteroscedasticity-con - sistent standard errors in parentheses **significant at the 1% level *significant at the 5%
level
Table A.6: OLS regressions for government consumption and log popu- lation with control variables