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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2010 Dec 1;30(1):77–86. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.11.002

Table 6.

Results: cognitive function.

Memory
Verbal
OLS IV OLS IV
Retired −0.2769** (0.1153) −0.0390 (0.9798) −0.7544*** (0.2628) 2.5647 (2.2682)
Age 0.0132 (0.1631) 0.0203 (0.1658) −0.0973 (0.3718) 0.0019 (0.3837)
Age squared −0.0007 (0.0014) −0.0009 (0.0015) 0.0002 (0.0031) −0.0023 (0.0036)
Public employment −0.3441*** (0.1259) −0.3298** (0.1389) −0.4915* (0.2869) −0.2916 (0.3216)
Self-employed 0.0241 (0.1100) 0.0705 (0.2192) −0.1769 (0.2506) 0.4699 (0.5074)
Married 0.1545 (0.1032) 0.1566 (0.1036) 0.5856** (0.2352) 0.6142** (0.2398)
High education 1.7646*** (0.1095) 1.7874*** (0.1438) 3.5650*** (0.2496) 3.8827*** (0.3329)
Medium education 1.0012*** (0.1014) 1.0046*** (0.1024) 1.5804*** (0.2312) 1.6268*** (0.2370)
Household income 2.8554 (2.0524) 2.9376 (2.0806) 4.0035 (4.6775) 5.1506 (4.8163)
Foreign-born −0.6778*** (0.1540) −0.6843*** (0.1563) −2.5971*** (0.3509) −2.6877*** (0.3618)
Number of chronic diseases 0.0159 (0.0372) 0.0126 (0.0396) 0.0948 (0.0848) 0.0483 (0.0917)
Number of ADLs −0.1442 (0.1445) −0.1465 (0.1448) −0.0400 (0.3293) −0.0714 (0.3353)
Number of IADLs −0.4177*** (0.1483) −0.4292*** (0.1555) −0.3921 (0.3379) −0.5517 (0.3600)
Non-professional activities 0.1779*** (0.0364) 0.1759*** (0.0374) 0.5911*** (0.0830) 0.5627*** (0.0865)
physically demanding activities 0.1825** (0.0882) 0.1968* (0.1058) 0.7988*** (0.2011) 0.9977*** (0.2449)
Moderate activities 0.0060 (0.1399) −0.0005 (0.1425) 1.1110*** (0.3189) 1.0204*** (0.3298)
Hansen’s J test
P-value
0.6084 (0.4354) 1.5108 (0.2190)
Observations 4928 4928 4928 4928
R-squared 0.19 0.19 0.25 0.23

Note: All regressions also include country dummy variables. Standard errors in parentheses.

*

Significant at 10%.

**

Significant at 5%.

***

Significant at 1%.