Table 10—Robustness checks, different econometric methodologies
Dependent variable: Most people can be trusted (0: No; 1: Yes)
Trust in the home country
Australia X trust in the home country
Country: 0 = US, 1 = Australia
OLS
regression with
full set of time
fixed effects
Random
effects panel
regression
OLS excluding
repeated
observations
Probit
regression
(marginal
effects)
0.560***
0.568***
0.568***
0.649***
(0.125)
(0.139)
(0.143)
(0.139)
–0.282**
–0.327**
–0.400**
–0.356**
(0.158)
(0.157)
(0.161)
(0.172)
0.611***
0.653***
0.808***
0.652***
(0.174)
(0.173)
(0.152)
(0.086)
R-squared
0.122
Observations
9,954
0.106
9,954
4,731
9,954
Levels of significance: *: 10% **: 5% ***: 1%
Sample: second-generation immigrants residing in the United States or in Australia.
Note: standard errors (clustered at the individual level) in parentheses. In the last column, standard errors are clustered at the
home-country level. The additional controls are as in Table 2, column 3.
Source: HILDA 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and GSS 1978–2010