Table 5—
Contingency Tables: Assortative Mating by Innate Health
| Innate permanent health — Fixed effects (ηi) | ||||||||||||
| Observed marital sorting % |
Random matching % |
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| Wife | Wife | |||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Marginal | ||
| Husband | 1 | 8.1 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 3.0 | 18.0 |
| 2 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 2.3 | 14.1 | |
| 3 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 14.7 | 5.5 | 0.7 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 4.3 | 26.0 | |
| 4 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 12.8 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 4.4 | 26.5 | |
| 5 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 2.5 | 15.4 | |
| Marginal | 18.0 | 13.6 | 25.0 | 26.8 | 16.5 | 18.0 | 13.6 | 25.0 | 26.8 | 16.5 | 100.0 | |
| Innate permanent health — System-GMM (ηi) | ||||||||||||
| Observed marital sorting % |
Random matching % |
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| Wife | Wife | |||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Marginal | ||
| Husband | 1 | 8.9 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 19.2 |
| 2 | 2.6 | 9.8 | 4.6 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 2.7 | 21.0 | |
| 3 | 2.4 | 4.9 | 10.0 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 5.0 | 2.9 | 22.2 | |
| 4 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 5.4 | 10.2 | 2.4 | 4.8 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 5.5 | 3.2 | 24.6 | |
| 5 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 6.3 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 1.7 | 13.1 | |
| Marginal | 19.5 | 21.8 | 23.5 | 22.3 | 12.9 | 19.5 | 21.8 | 23.5 | 22.3 | 12.9 | 100.0 | |
| Innate health type (ηg(i)) | ||||||||||||
| Observed sorting % |
Random matching % |
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| Wife | Wife | |||||||||||
| Husband | Low | High | Low | High | Marginal | |||||||
| Low | 5.7 | 8.2 | 2.0 | 11.9 | 13.9 | |||||||
| High | 8.6 | 77.5 | 12.3 | 73.8 | 86.1 | |||||||
| Marginal | 14.3 | 85.7 | 14.3 | 85.7 | 100.0 | |||||||
Note: In the left columns of the two top panels, each cell gives the observed percentage of married households in which husbands and wifes lie in each indicated quintile of innate permanent health estimated from Equations (1) and (3) respectively). In the right columns of each panel, each cell gives the predicted percentage from multiplying marginal distributions of husbands and wives, which are reported, respectively, at the last column and row. The bottom panel provides similar statistics computed for the innate health types obtained from the estimation of Equation (2).