Institutional quality threshold and marginal effect
| Marginal effects + × | Model A.2 | Model A.3 | Model A.4 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.248 | 0.079 | 0.052 | |||||||
| EF | DR | FR | Threshold | ||||||
| Benin | 0.011 | 0.010 | −0.004 | 0.65 | 0.81 | 0.70 | |||
| Botswana | −0.018 | 0.001 | −0.001 | Countries that are above the threshold | |||||
| Burkina Faso | 0.015 | 0.038 | 0.011 | Botswana | Kenya | Benin | |||
| Cameroon | 0.018 | 0.056 | 0.028 | The Gambia | Lesotho | Botswana | |||
| Congo, Rep. | 0.042 | 0.064 | 0.024 | Ghana | Mauritius | ||||
| Cote d'Ivoire | 0.018 | 0.043 | 0.022 | Kenya | South Africa | Ghana | |||
| Eswatini | 0.005 | 0.064 | 0.029 | Liberia | Mauritius | ||||
| Gabon | 0.021 | 0.043 | 0.023 | Mauritius | Namibia | ||||
| The Gambia | −0.013 | 0.060 | 0.021 | Namibia | South Africa | ||||
| Ghana | −0.004 | 0.001 | −0.008 | Rwanda | |||||
| Guinea | 0.032 | 0.043 | 0.022 | Seychelles | |||||
| Guinea-Bissau | 0.032 | 0.019 | 0.016 | South Africa | |||||
| Kenya | −0.013 | −0.001 | 0.009 | Uganda | |||||
| Lesotho | 0.004 | −0.003 | 0.002 | ||||||
| Liberia | −0.010 | 0.020 | 0.025 | ||||||
| Madagascar | 0.008 | 0.020 | 0.011 | ||||||
| Mali | 0.016 | 0.016 | 0.007 | ||||||
| Mauritius | −0.032 | −0.015 | −0.009 | ||||||
| Mozambique | 0.022 | 0.021 | 0.009 | ||||||
| Namibia | −0.002 | 0.017 | −0.003 | ||||||
| Niger | 0.023 | 0.016 | 0.009 | ||||||
| Nigeria | 0.003 | 0.024 | 0.013 | ||||||
| Rwanda | −0.009 | 0.064 | 0.026 | ||||||
| Senegal | 0.015 | 0.007 | 0.000 | ||||||
| Seychelles | −0.020 | 0.016 | 0.004 | ||||||
| Sierra Leone | 0.013 | 0.006 | 0.005 | ||||||
| South Africa | −0.007 | −0.007 | −0.005 | ||||||
| Tanzania | 0.000 | 0.044 | 0.007 | ||||||
| Togo | 0.017 | 0.056 | 0.017 | ||||||
| Uganda | −0.020 | 0.057 | 0.019 | ||||||
| Marginal effects | Model A.2 | Model A.3 | Model A.4 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EF | DR | FR | Threshold | ||||||
| Benin | 0.011 | 0.010 | −0.004 | 0.65 | 0.81 | 0.70 | |||
| Botswana | −0.018 | 0.001 | −0.001 | Countries that are above the threshold | |||||
| Burkina Faso | 0.015 | 0.038 | 0.011 | Botswana | Kenya | Benin | |||
| Cameroon | 0.018 | 0.056 | 0.028 | The Gambia | Lesotho | Botswana | |||
| Congo, Rep. | 0.042 | 0.064 | 0.024 | Ghana | Mauritius | ||||
| Cote d'Ivoire | 0.018 | 0.043 | 0.022 | Kenya | South Africa | Ghana | |||
| Eswatini | 0.005 | 0.064 | 0.029 | Liberia | Mauritius | ||||
| Gabon | 0.021 | 0.043 | 0.023 | Mauritius | Namibia | ||||
| The Gambia | −0.013 | 0.060 | 0.021 | Namibia | South Africa | ||||
| Ghana | −0.004 | 0.001 | −0.008 | Rwanda | |||||
| Guinea | 0.032 | 0.043 | 0.022 | Seychelles | |||||
| Guinea-Bissau | 0.032 | 0.019 | 0.016 | South Africa | |||||
| Kenya | −0.013 | −0.001 | 0.009 | Uganda | |||||
| Lesotho | 0.004 | −0.003 | 0.002 | ||||||
| Liberia | −0.010 | 0.020 | 0.025 | ||||||
| Madagascar | 0.008 | 0.020 | 0.011 | ||||||
| Mali | 0.016 | 0.016 | 0.007 | ||||||
| Mauritius | −0.032 | −0.015 | −0.009 | ||||||
| Mozambique | 0.022 | 0.021 | 0.009 | ||||||
| Namibia | −0.002 | 0.017 | −0.003 | ||||||
| Niger | 0.023 | 0.016 | 0.009 | ||||||
| Nigeria | 0.003 | 0.024 | 0.013 | ||||||
| Rwanda | −0.009 | 0.064 | 0.026 | ||||||
| Senegal | 0.015 | 0.007 | 0.000 | ||||||
| Seychelles | −0.020 | 0.016 | 0.004 | ||||||
| Sierra Leone | 0.013 | 0.006 | 0.005 | ||||||
| South Africa | −0.007 | −0.007 | −0.005 | ||||||
| Tanzania | 0.000 | 0.044 | 0.007 | ||||||
| Togo | 0.017 | 0.056 | 0.017 | ||||||
| Uganda | −0.020 | 0.057 | 0.019 | ||||||
Source(s): Authors' computations
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