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Table 3 Coefficient of variation of social expenditure growth

From: Determinants of social spending in Latin America during and after the Washington consensus: a dynamic panel error-correction model analysis

Tests

Total social expenditure

Education expenditure

Health expenditure

Social security expenditure

Housing and other expenditure

Coefficient of variation 1991–2012 (average)

1.496

1.341

1.067

1.677

0.524

Augmented Dickey–Fuller, z(t)

− 3.230** (0.018)

− 3.771*** (0.003)

− 3.586*** (0.006)

− 3.114** (0.025)

− 3.792*** (0.003)

Phillips–Perron, z(t)

− 3.780*** (0.003)

− 5.452*** (0.000)

− 4.574*** (0.000)

− 4.553*** (0.000)

− 3.907*** (0.002)

  1. pp. Number of lags was selected using the AIC criterion. p values in parenthesis. ***, ** and * denote statistical significance at the 1, 5 and 10% levels, respectively for stationary variables