China Policy Journal Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2018 | Page 78

Payment for Ecological Services and River Transboundary Pollution
Income significant higher
than need
27.176 27.677 27.058
(2.96)*** (3.03)*** (2.97)***
male —5.829 —5.859 —5.975
(0.81) (0.81) (0.83)
Can see the river −−25.250 —24.755 —24.015
(2.02)** (1.98)** (1.93)*
Far from the river —28.295 —28.315 —27.186
(2.38)** (2.39)** (2.30)**
d_fish 10.770 9.815 9.611
(1.20) (1.10) (1.08)
City level characteristics
share2nd —0.917 —1.383 —1.670
(2.29)** (3.06)*** (3.63)***
pop_density —1.011 —0.580 —0.186
(2.83)*** (1.43) (0.43)
gdp_growth 9.605 10.790 9.831
(4.16)*** (4.57)*** (4.29)***
Water quality related variables
degree 5.134 5.264 5.990
(1.65)* (1.69)* (1.93)*
degree_upper —5.574
degree_upper×
(2.22)**
—13.564
(3.24)***
Constant —62.418 —49.903 —28.804
(1.27) (1.01) (0.58)
LR 4.09** 10.45***
t statistics are displayed in parentheses, The stars *, ** and *** indicate the significance level at the 15%,
10%, and 1%, respectively.
This is a part of the Table 5 published in He, Huang, and Xu (2015a, P113).
The LR test reported at the bottom of the Table 1 compares the model including the variables of the
water quality of the direct upstream city with that excluding such variables.
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