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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 11.
Published in final edited form as: Educ Econ. 2014 Aug 8;23(6):735–750. doi: 10.1080/09645292.2014.944858

Table 4.

The education gradient in undiagnosed disease

Panel A: Standard definition
Pr (Self-report=0 | Has disease=1)
Panel B: Alternative definition
Pr (Has disease=1 | Self-report=0)
Diabetes High school graduate 0.054 (0.032) −0.001 (0.004)
College and more −0.029 (0.028) −0.013** (0.004)
Income to poverty ratio 0.024** (0.008) −0.003** (0.001)

Hypertension High school graduate 0.002 (0.012) 0.003 (0.007)
College and more −0.015 (0.012) −0.024** (0.006)
Income to poverty ratio 0.007** (0.003) −0.00001 (0.002)

High
Cholesterol
High school graduate −0.030** (0.011) 0.006 (0.007)
College and more −0.055** (0.011) −0.013* (0.006)
Income to poverty ratio −0.019** (0.003) −0.004* (0.002)

Notes:

*

denotes statistical significance at the 0.05 level and

**

at the 0.01 level.

Marginal effects shown. Standard errors are in parentheses. Marginal effects of race, gender, marital status, age, age square, self-reported diabetes, cholesterol, hypertension, obesity, smoking status, and survey year dummy variables are not shown.