Table 3

Relationship between financial preparedness and decrease in income

VariablesDecrease in incomeDecrease in income
(1)(2)
Financial preparedness0.142***−0.0465
−0.0519−0.0674
Financial preparedness × 2020 0.227**
 −0.102
Gender−0.0912−0.0943
−0.0645−0.0645
18–35 years old0.969**0.972**
−0.453−0.453
36–55 years old1.024**1.026**
−0.448−0.448
More than 55 years old0.915**0.917**
−0.448−0.448
Year 20200.543***0.661***
−0.047−0.0715
Urban1.325***1.327***
−0.15−0.151
Constant−1.040**−1.084**
−0.448−0.449
Observations8,1088,108
Number of households5,6585,658

Note(s): Standard errors in parentheses, ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1

The dependent variable is decrease in income that takes the value one if the person's income diminished from 2019 to 2020 and the value of zero otherwise. Financial preparedness is a dummy variable that takes the value one if the person had any banking instrument such as bank accounts and loans and had extra income to his/her main job during 2019 and zero otherwise. Gender takes the value of one if the person is a male and zero otherwise. Age is a categorial variable that takes the value of one, two, or three depending on the person's age. Urban is a variable that takes the value of one if the person comes from the Lima Metropolitan area and zero otherwise and Year 2020 is a dummy variable that takes the value of one in 2020 and zero otherwise. Financial preparedness × 2020 is an interaction variable that multiplies the Financial Preparedness dummy for 2020 times the Year 2020 dummy

Source(s): ENAHO. Own elaboration

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