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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 8. Average partial effects (percentage points).

SRHS models SRHS and mortality model


Indep. AR(1) Effect on Selection effect SRHS and selection

Mortality SRHS
Gender: reference = male
 Female 0.58 −0.57 −2.07 −2.64 2.55 −0.08
Race: reference = nonhispanic white
 Nonwhite 11.51 11.53 1.43 13.26 −1.93 11.33
 Hispanic 12.86 12.53 −0.19 10.36 2.18 12.54
Education: reference= high school degree
 Education < HS 14.04 12.28 1.37 15.49 −1.82 13.67
 Education > HS −8.06 −8.26 −0.93 −10.82 2.56 −8.26
Age: increase by 2 years, from current age
 50–59 1.10 1.50 0.13 1.98 −0.79 1.18
 60–69 0.80 1.06 0.53 2.91 −2.28 0.63
 70–79 1.75 2.16 1.18 7.94 −5.87 2.07
 80–89 1.20 2.33 2.59 13.95 −12.28 1.67
 90+ −2.32 0.18 2.14 24.55 −28.43 −3.87
Total 1.09 1.58 0.82 5.46 −4.30 1.17

The numbers show the ceteris paribus change of the probability of poor or fair health, averaged over the sample. They are obtained by counterfactual simulation