PAPANEK - KYN: Flatenning the Kuznets Curve

Table 2

Factors in Income Distribution

Pooled Data — Stable Kuznets Curve

Dependent Variable: Gini Coefficient

Coverage: All Countries

Regression Number		1	2	3	4	5
Kuznets Curve:	LIN	.1887	.1302	.2103	.1692	.1779
	t-stat.	(2.331)	(1 .560)	(2.418)	(1.984)	(1.963)
	prob.val.	(.021)	(.121)	(.017)	(.049)	(.052)
	LIN²	-.017	-.012	-.017	-.0147	-.0155
	t-stat.	(-2.625)	(-1.795)	(-2.459)	(-2.146)	(-2.183)
	prob.val.	(.010)	(.075)	(.015)	(.034)	(.031)
Economic Factors	Growth Rate		.0010	.0001	.0004	-.0003
	t-stat.		(.392)	(.221)	(.163)	(-.124)
	prob.val.		(.695)	(.825)	(.871)	(.901)
	Primary Exports		.0017	.0013	.0009	.0003
	t-stat.		(2.730)	(2.034)	(1.492)	(.55 1)
	prob. val.		(.007)	(.044)	(.138)	(.582)
	Manufactured Exports		.000 1	.0001	.000 1	.0004
	t-stat.		(.082)	(.116)	(.142)	(.539)
	prob.val.		(.935)	(.908)	(.887)	(.591)
Education:	Enrolment			-.002	-.0007	-.0002
	t-stat.			(-2.658)	(-1.435)	(-.363)
	prob.val.			(.009)	(.154)	(.717)
Socio- political System:	East Europe				-.1225	-.1083
	t-stat.				(-2.863)	(-2.539)
	prob.val.				(.005)	(.012)
	Dualistic Society				.0412	.0322
	t-stat.				(2.077)	(1.626)
	prob. val.				(.040)	(.107)
	Public Investment				-.0006	-.0006
	t-stat.				(-.137)	(-1.197)
	prob. val.				(.258)	(.234)
*Regions:*	S. & Centr. America					.0351
	t-stat.					(1.354)
	prob.val.					(.178)
	Africa, Sub-Sahara					.1285
	t-stat.					(3.575)
	prob. val.					(.000)
	Asia					-.0020
	t-stat.					(-.068)
	prob.val.					(.946)
	W. Asia & N. Africa					.0702
	t-stat.					(2.066)
	prob.va l.					(.041)
*Regression* *statistic*	R²	.3484	.3871	.4182	.5426	.6238
	SER	.0895	.0877	.0858	.0770	.0709
	F-stat.	9.088	7.636	7.908	10.203	10.909
Partial F-statistics	Kuznets Curve	8.742	4.762	3.037	3.088	3.496
	prob.val.	(.0003)	(.0101)	(.0513)	(.0490)	(.0333)
	Economic Factors		2.802	1 .496	.821	.163
	prob. val.		(.0418)	(.2172)	(.4873)	(.9185)
	Education			7.063	2.058	.132
	prob. val.			(.0088)	(.1538)	(.7171)
	Socio-political System				11.696	7.198
	prob.val.				(.0001)	(.0002)
	Regions					6.743
	prob.val					(.0001)