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. 2014 Nov 24;111(50):E5331–E5332. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1417030111

Table 1.

Regression results

Dependent variable All deaths All deaths All deaths All deaths Ln (Deaths – US population ratio) Ln (Deaths – real damage ratio)
Pressure −0.552*** −0.693*** −0.645*** −0.666*** −0.752*** 0.777***
(0.147) (0.137) (0.161) (0.134) (0.150) (0.149)
Normalized damages 0.863***
(0.333)
Gender Index (female = 10, male = 0) 0.172 0.453*** 0.287* 0.387** 0.00673 0.126
(0.118) (0.166) (0.167) (0.162) (0.142) (0.133)
US population 0.00865 0.0216 −0.716***
(0.137) (0.143) (0.134)
County population density 0.365** 0.306* 0.542* −0.0612
(0.158) (0.175) (0.301) (0.202)
Gender Index × Pressure 0.395** 0.162 0.268* 0.152 0.0405 −0.272**
(0.157) (0.115) (0.146) (0.113) (0.128) (0.125)
Gender Index × Normalized damages 0.705***
(0.246)
Gender Index × US population −0.348** −0.336** −0.304**
(0.143) (0.145) (0.133)
Gender Index × County population density −0.548*** −0.480*** −0.563* −0.0424
(0.169) (0.170) (0.309) (0.212)
Constant 2.476*** 2.585*** 2.782*** 2.637*** −17.20*** −4.286***
(0.125) (0.182) (0.203) (0.183) (0.152) (0.143)
Observations 92 92 92 92 82 82
Estimator NB NB NB NB OLS OLS
F test: all gender parameters sum to zero (two-sided P value) 0.00112 0.264 0.980 0.400 0.195 3.62e-05

SEs are in parentheses. ***P < 0.01, **P < 0.05, *P < 0.1. All specifications show robust (White) SEs as Jung et al. (4) suggest. The results are qualitatively the same without using robust SEs.