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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 3.
Published in final edited form as: Int Econ Rev (Philadelphia). 2018 Mar 9;59(3):1571–1619. doi: 10.1111/iere.12314

Table D2:

Estimation Results: Unobserved Heterogeneity Distributions

Mass
point
Smoking Mortality Cause of death CVD=1 CVD>1 Cancer
diagnosis
Diabetes
diagnosis
BMI Mass point
probability
CVD Cancer

Time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity
μ2 −2.799 (0.357)*** −0.588 (0.375) 1.031 (0.543)* 0.612 (0.623) 0.045 (0.255) 0.562 (0.475) 0.505 (0.475) −2.024 (0.861)** −0.040 (0.008)*** 0.297
μ3 −0.521 (0.454) −0.179 (0.476) 1.037 (0.837) 0.132 (0.998) −0.144 (0.411) 0.511 (0.637) 0.126 (0.638) 0.020 (0.626) 0.010 (0.018) 0.032
μ4 −2.205 (0.641)*** 0.089 (0.354) 1.312 (0.588)** −0.304 (0.703) 0.252 (0.24) 0.846 (0.534) 0.332 (0.542) 0.201 (0.511) 0.072 (0.009)*** 0.147
μ5 −2.095 (0.691)*** 0.010 (0.435) −0.020 (0.732) −1.180 (0.846) 0.861 (0.354)** 0.386 (0.961) 0.127 (0.767) 0.707 (0.67) 0.171 (0.018)*** 0.034
μ6 −3.061 (0.353)*** −0.198 (0.476) 1.384 (0.596)** 0.508 (0.713) 0.168 (0.213) 0.513 (0.526) 0.521 (0.495) −0.755 (0.387)* 0.007 (0.007) 0.353
Time-varying unobserved heterogeneity
vt2 −0.566 (1.674) −0.531 (0.677) −0.444 (1.257) −0.126 (1.431) −0.896 (0.654) −3.761 (1.195)*** −0.505 (1.288) −0.760 (1.134) 0.976 (0.084)*** 0.023
vt3 4.508 (2.05)** −0.099 (0.738) 1.356 (0.845) −0.109 (1.126) −1.606 (0.644)** −3.353 (0.626)*** −0.953 (1.19) −2.800 (2.863) 0.689 (0.06)*** 0.548
vt4 0.291 (1.692) −1.572 (0.868)* 1.822 (1.201) 1.512 (1.293) −0.704 (0.58) −2.707 (0.667)*** 0.037 (1.13) −0.143 (1.011) 0.703 (0.062)*** 0.391
vt5 3.578 (2.196) −0.310 (0.699) 1.338 (0.811)* 0.429 (1.171) 0.380 (0.606) −0.403 (0.555) 0.706 (1.169) 1.040 (0.998) 0.414 (0.044)*** 0.034
vt6 0.044 (2.292) 0.280 (1.051) 0.329 (1.611) −1.862 (1.926) −0.945 (1.4) −2.339 (0.622)*** −1.461 (1.166) −2.616 (1.128)** 1.586 (0.171)*** 0.001
***

Note: First mass point vector values normalized to zero for both distrubutions, and occur with probabilities 0.137 and 0.003. Standard errors are in parentheses. indicates joint significance at the 1% level

**

5% level

*

10% level