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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Empir Econ. 2011 Feb 1;40(1):119–140. doi: 10.1007/s00181-010-0422-3

Table 7. Joint SRHS and mortality model: parameter estimates.

Females Males
SRHS Mortality SRHS Mortality
Age spline, 50–59 0.101**
(0.006)		 0.049*
(0.022)		 0.122**
(0.008)		 0.035
(0.022)
Age spline, 60–69 0.065**
(0.006)		 0.109**
(0.010)		 0.082**
(0.006)		 0.097**
(0.009)
Age spline, 70–79 0.136**
(0.006)		 0.103**
(0.008)		 0.159**
(0.008)		 0.115**
(0.008)
Age spline, 80–89 0.168**
(0.008)		 0.140**
(0.008)		 0.175**
(0.011)		 0.136**
(0.009)
Age spline, 90+ 0.155**
(0.018)		 0.167**
(0.013)		 0.051
(0.034)		 0.155**
(0.021)
Nonwhite 1.477**
(0.074)		 0.457**
(0.057)		 1.040**
(0.084)		 0.316**
(0.061)
Hispanic 1.459**
(0.099)		 −0.012
(0.089)		 0.858**
(0.109)		 −0.105
(0.091)
Education <HS 1.575**
(0.070)		 0.458**
(0.053)		 1.215**
(0.082)		 0.267**
(0.057)
Education > HS −0.941**
(0.066)		 −0.236**
(0.058)		 −1.109**
(0.078)		 −0.346**
(0.060)
Latent health (σ) 3.172**
(0.031)		 0.942**
(0.028)		 3.152**
(0.036)		 0.929**
(0.029)
ρ 0.949**
(0.002)		 0.944**
(0.002)
Individuals 16,337 12,857
Observations (mortality) 79,460 61,695
Observations (SRHS) 70,341 53,526
Log likelihood −97, 129.5 −77, 676.6