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. 2013 Sep;32(5):922–937. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.07.001

Table 5.

Decomposition of the implied equilibrium IRHI in 1999.

Decomposition Analysis
Conc. Index Health share Contribution
CI η Share
IRHI in 1999: CIssh 0.02095***
0.00129
Equilibrium IRHI: CIsshˆ* 0.02982*** 0.02982*** 100.0%
0.00240 0.00240
of which due to:
LNINCOME99 0.11934*** 0.11799*** 0.01408*** 47.2%
0.00165 0.02013 0.00239
SMOKING99 −0.07904*** −0.00810*** 0.00064*** 2.1%
0.01647 0.00183 0.00020
AGE99 −0.05111*** 0.06015 −0.00307 −10.3%
0.00351 0.04739 0.00247
AGESQ99 −0.11029*** −0.13519*** 0.01491*** 50.0%
0.00631 0.02769 0.00329
MALE 0.05409*** 0.01744*** 0.00094*** 3.2%
0.00536 0.00313 0.00020
NONWHITE 0.07027*** −0.00199 −0.00014 −0.5%
0.01858 0.00143 0.00011
ADVEDUC 0.24303*** 0.00923** 0.00224** 7.5%
0.01074 0.00369 0.00090
STDEDONLY 0.02010* 0.01089*** 0.00022 0.7%
0.01110 0.00328 0.00014
constant 0 0.92958*** 0 0%
0.03032

Source: Authors’ calculations based on Eq. (16) using all those present in 1999. Bootstrapped standard errors in italics based on 2000 replications. Statistical significance at 1%, 5% and 10% levels are denoted by ***, ** and *, respectively.