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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 31.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2014 Jul 31;127:63–73. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.056

Table 5.

Education, Unemployment Rates and Outcomes in Eurobarometer, with Current Unemployment Rates included

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Dependent variables Income Quartile
(1:highest -
4:lowest)		 General Poor
Health (Yes = 1)		 Life
dissatisfaction
(Yes = 1)		 Obesity
(Yes = 1)		 Smoker
(Yes = 1)		 Daily drinker
(Yes = 1)
UR when graduating (3
years average)		 0.737*
(0.382)		 0.053
(0.133)		 −0.034
(0.077)		 0.103
(0.131)		 0.582**
(0.142)		 0.240*
(0.124)
(Education - 9) * UR −0.125**
(0.059)		 −0.039**
(0.017)		 −0.007
(0.012)		 −0.057**
(0.022)		 −0.079**
(0.019)		 −0.035*
(0.019)
Current UR 0.853
(0.590)		 −1.256**
(0.354)		 1.537**
(0.086)		 −0.218
(0.463)		 −0.109
(0.212)		 −0.437**
(0.149)
(Education - 9) * Current
UR		 −0.003
(0.062)		 0.042
(0.028)		 −0.069**
(0.010)		 0.050*
(0.030)		 0.104**
(0.027)		 0.030
(0.021)
Observations 50,590 28,537 86,620 17,697 38,132 19,699
R-squared 0.244 0.054 0.158 0.103 0.056 0.061

Note: see Table 2 notes for sample and specification details.

**

p<0.05,

*

p<0.1.