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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Econ. 2011 May;20(5):553–570. doi: 10.1002/hec.1616

Table 4.

The Effects of Cumulative Job Characteristics on Health Status for Men

Controls for Income and Weekly Work Hours

Outcome SRHS SRHS SRHS SRHS SRHS
Specification OPRE OPRE OPRE OPRE OPRE
Sample Males Non White White Old Young
Cumulative Physical Demands (std) 0.002 (0.025) −0.034 (0.043) 0.029 (0.030) −0.050 (0.033) 0.080** (0.036)
Cumulative Environmental Conditions (std) −0.028* (0.016) −0.019 (0.027) −0.026 (0.018) 0.030 (0.024) −0.064*** (0.022)
Lagged Health 0.122*** (0.010) 0.117*** (0.017) 0.120*** (0.013) 0.204*** (0.014) 0.142*** (0.016)
Age −0.090*** (0.009) −0.113*** (0.018) −0.079*** (0.012) −0.173*** (0.025) −0.028 (0.051)
Age-squared 0.059*** (0.010) 0.076*** (0.020) 0.048*** (0.013) 0.145*** (0.024) −0.030 (0.076)
Non White −0.272*** (0.039) −0.321*** (0.052) −0.238*** (0.051)
Education 0.136*** (0.008) 0.065*** (0.014) 0.173*** (0.011) 0.120*** (0.011) 0.129*** (0.013)
Self Employed 0.036 (0.031) 0.140** (0.066) 0.020 (0.036) 0.010 (0.040) 0.083* (0.048)
Married −0.015 (0.028) −0.096** (0.044) 0.051 (0.035) 0.044 (0.042) −0.056 (0.038)
Unemployment Spells −0.236** (0.109) −0.220 (0.189) −0.184 (0.133) −0.389*** (0.140) −0.161 (0.177)
Initial Health 0.486*** (0.025) 0.327*** (0.034) 0.583*** (0.029) 0.430*** (0.033) 0.561*** (0.034)
Cumulative Weekly Work Hours 0.001*** (0.000) 0.001*** (0.001) 0.001*** (0.000) 0.002*** (0.000) 0.001 (0.000)
Cumulative Labor Income 0.004*** (0.001) 0.015*** (0.002) 0.004*** (0.001) 0.005*** (0.001) 0.005*** (0.002)
Constant 2.076*** (0.146) 3.376*** (0.441) 0.562* (0.316) 3.868*** (0.656) 0.339 (0.861)
Observations 34721 9952 24769 19579 15142
R-squared 0.404 0.365 0.403 0.453 0.290

SRHS: self reported health status. STD: standardized. OPRE: Ordered Probit/Random Effects Estimator

Robust standard errors clustered at the individual level in parentheses,

***

p<0.01,

**

p<0.05,

*

p<0.1.

Additional Controls: Missing initial health, missing self employed information and year fixed effects.