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Table 9 Robustness tests on infections (INF) by weekly estimates

From: The world trade network: country centrality and the COVID-19 pandemic

DEP. VAR.: INF

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Local Clustering

3.985***

4.257***

4.180***

4.307***

4.327***

 

(0.880)

(0.969)

(0.927)

(1.003)

(1.042)

Average Community Clustering

5.160***

6.066***

5.713***

5.613***

5.362***

 

(2.560)

(2.824)

(2.521)

(2.417)

(2.318)

GDPPC

1.405***

1.302***

1.174*

1.087

1.011

 

(0.120)

(0.115)

(0.108)

(0.097)

(0.094)

POP

0.950

0.911

1.006

1.053

1.110

 

(0.162)

(0.112)

(0.131)

(0.128)

(0.150)

POP65+

2.148***

1.878***

1.707***

1.517**

1.414**

 

(0.360)

(0.311)

(0.304)

(0.285)

(0.287)

HBEDS

0.470***

0.528***

0.566***

0.631***

0.674**

 

(0.060)

(0.077)

(0.086)

(0.097)

(0.111)

TEMP

1.208

1.173

1.056

1.029

0.979

 

(0.203)

(0.146)

(0.136)

(0.144)

(0.142)

Overdispersion (\(\alpha\))

0.948***

0.957***

0.963***

0.955***

1.002***

 

(0.191)

(0.191)

(0.186)

(0.174)

(0.176)

N

55

55

55

55

55

Pseudo \(R^2\)

0.108

0.096

0.089

0.084

0.079

  1. Country-level clustered standard errors in parentheses.
  2. All the estimates also include a constant term.
  3. *\(p < 0.1\); **\(p < 0.05\); ***\(p < 0.01\).