APPENDIX TABLE 5.
REGRESSION RESULTS BY THE MEASURE OF MALARIA RISK
Malaria Risk Estimation Method | Model (5) in Table 2 Effect on Height at Enlistment | Model (5) in Table 3 Effect on Susceptibility to Infections during the Civil War | |||||||
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Model | Which Period and its Forts are Used to Estimate County Malaria Risk? | Which Type of Fever in Fort Data is Used as Malarial Fever? | Statistics of Estimated Risk | ||||||
Mean | Maximum | Minimum | Estimate | t-value | dx/dy | z-value | |||
(1) | 1829–1838 / 1871–1874 | intermittent / remittent | 0.1601 | 0.4788 | 0.0138 | −2.5749 | −2.04 | 0.2902 | 4.66 |
(2) | 1829–1838 / 1871–1874 | intermittent | 0.1256 | 0.3956 | 0.0079 | −2.9729 | −1.97 | 0.3580 | 4.79 |
(3) | 1829–1838 / 1871–1874 | remittent | 0.0583 | 0.3579 | 0.0026 | −6.0801 | −2.55 | 0.5680 | 4.24 |
(4) | 1829–1838 | intermittent / remittent | 0.1337 | 1.1156 | 0.0005 | −1.1414 | −1.40 | 0.1413 | 2.89 |
(5) | 1871–1874 | intermittent / remittent | 0.1656 | 0.5603 | 0.0149 | −2.3238 | −1.83 | 0.3279 | 5.05 |
(6) | County population weighted measure | 0.1741 | 0.4491 | 0.0080 | −1.9169 | −1.93 | 0.3176 | 6.38 |
Notes: In model (3), I rescaled the risk variable with multiplying by 10. As weights in model (6), I used county population in the 1850 census. Model (6) uses all available forts in both periods, and both types of fevers.