Table 2.

Contemporaneous and one- to 10-year lagged effects of determinants on life expectancy for 119 countries from 1970 to 2004 as estimated by linear mixed models

			Parameter estimates
Models	N	n	β 0	P Value	β 1	P Value	β 2	P Value	β 3	P Value	β 4	P Value	β 5	P Value	p
Lag 0	119	1268	34.505	<0.001	0.147	<0.001	3.955	<0.001	0.104	<0.001	0.035	<0.001	0.017	0.155	0.983
Lag 1	118	1228	35.470	<0.001	0.142	<0.001	3.891	<0.001	0.101	<0.001	0.034	<0.001	0.020	0.107	0.982
Lag 2	116	1114	35.670	<0.001	0.131	<0.001	3.978	<0.001	0.103	<0.001	0.033	<0.001	0.025	0.069	0.978
Lag 3	116	1001	34.888	<0.001	0.105	<0.001	4.107	<0.001	0.119	<0.001	0.033	<0.001	0.034	0.028	0.972
Lag 4	116	889	33.674	<0.001	0.086	<0.001	4.218	<0.001	0.129	<0.001	0.045	<0.001	0.048	0.005	0.963
Lag 5	116	889	34.378	<0.001	0.078	0.003	4.285	<0.001	0.121	<0.001	0.044	<0.001	0.056	0.002	0.964
Lag 6	116	889	35.280	<0.001	0.072	0.007	4.298	<0.001	0.114	<0.001	0.043	<0.001	0.063	<0.001	0.965
Lag 7	116	889	36.162	<0.001	0.064	0.017	4.292	<0.001	0.107	<0.001	0.043	<0.001	0.071	<0.001	0.966
Lag 8	116	793	35.153	<0.001	0.030	0.278	4.613	<0.001	0.119	<0.001	0.043	<0.001	0.084	<0.001	0.957
Lag 9	116	697	34.049	<0.001	-0.005	0.861	4.915	<0.001	0.132	<0.001	0.045	<0.001	0.098	<0.001	0.944
Lag 10	113	582	31.609	<0.001	-0.056	0.092	5.503	<0.001	0.140	<0.001	0.058	<0.001	0.143	<0.001	0.920

N = number of countries; n = number of observations; ρ = estimate of the first order autocorrelation coefficient