Remittances and labor supply in post-conflict Tajikistan

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 8 Hours worked, remittances and conflict exposure

	Panel A: Men						Panel B: Women
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)	(11)	(12)
Ln(total remittances from abroad and Tajikistan)	−2.046***	−2.214***					−1.086***	−0.612
Ln(total remittances from abroad and Tajikistan)	(0.234)	(0.352)					(0.253)	(0.398)
Conflict region*Ln(total remittances)		0.312						−0.819
Conflict region*Ln(total remittances)		(0.460)						(0.514)
Receives remittances (dummy)			−11.769***	−13.252***					−6.402***	−3.863*
Receives remittances (dummy)			(1.363)	(1.983)					(1.485)	(2.213)
Conflict region*Receives remittances				2.821						−4.582
Conflict region*Receives remittances				(2.674)						(2.978)
N of private remitters abroad					−11.158***	−10.275***					−4.308***	−3.631
N of private remitters abroad					(1.641)	(2.317)					(1.621)	(2.461)
N of private remitters in Tajikistan					−4.975***	−7.189***					−4.726***	−1.042
N of private remitters in Tajikistan					(1.400)	(1.981)					(1.554)	(2.437)
Conflict region*N remitters abroad						−1.696						−1.161
Conflict region*N remitters abroad						(3.204)						(3.265)
Conflict region*N remitters in Tajikistan						3.958						−6.140*
Conflict region*N remitters in Tajikistan						(2.707)						(3.223)
N	7119	7119	7119	7119	7119	7119	7402	7402	7402	7402	7402	7402
Log likelihood	−24148	−24148	−24151	−24150	−24152	−24151	−20128	−20127	−20128	−20127	−20129	−20127
N of left-censored obs	2661	2661	2661	2661	2661	2661	3949	3949	3949	3949	3949	3949

Tobit models. Dependent variable: hours worked in the last 14 days.
Notes: * significant at 10%; ** significant at 5%; *** significant at 1%. All regressions control for age, age squared, education level, non-wage income, household dependency ratio, indicators for being married, female household head and rural residence, and a constant term. All regressions include district-level fixed effects. Robust standard errors in parenthesis.
Data Source: As for Table 2.