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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 30.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Econ Rev. 2018 Mar 11;104:138–166. doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.02.005

Table 3—

Empirical Distribution of Innate Health

Individuals that at age […] are […]:
Age 30
 Age 40
Never married
 Ever married
 Never married
 Ever married
Fixed effects System-GMM Fixed effects System-GMM Fixed effects System-GMM Fixed effects System-GMM
Innate permanent health (ηi):
Mean −0.027 −0.005 0.008 0.002 −0.039 −0.008 0.008 −0.000
Standard dev. 0.204 0.159 0.163 0.134 0.227 0.185 0.193 0.154
Num. of indiv. 2,207 1,159 4,827 3,330 810 670 4,963 4,353
Age30
 Age 40
Never married Ever married Never married Ever married
Innate health type (ηg(i)):
Fraction of high type 0.845 0.895 0.824 0.884
Standard deviation 0.131 0.094 0.145 0.102
Number of individuals 1,806 4,249 642 4,264

Note: The table reports statistics that summarize the empirical distribution of recovered fixed effects ηi in Equations (1), and (3), and of innate health types ηg(i) in Equation (2) for different groups of individuals. Each block includes individuals that, at the listed age, are never married and ever married as indicated. Statistics are computed from the PSID. Weights are used in the estimation. Three year windows are constructed around the indicated age to increase the number of observations.