Table 5.

Health equation for Italian women and men: average marginal effects, 2007–2011; 2011–2014

	Women 2007–2010		Men 2007–2010		Women 2011–2014		Men 2011–2014
	AME	S.E	AME	S.E	AME	S.E	AME	S.E
Dependent variable: health status
Employed	− .232	.047*	.014	.075†	− .121	.092*	.019	.164†
Age dummies: reference-55, 64]
[25, 34]	.203	.019***	.164	.032***	.214	.017***	.204	.036***
[35, 44]	.158	.018***	.131	.034***	.134	.024***	.125	.047***
[45, 54]	.125	.017***	.065	.032*	.074	.025***	.069	.046†
Education: reference-primary
Tertiary education	.090	.019***	.024	.013*	.028	.014*	.012	.026†
Married	.000	.011†	.027	.011*	.082	.035*	.013	.021†
Geographical area of residence: reference-South
North	− .003	.013†	− .013	.009†	− .042	.011***	− .038	.022*
Centre	.022	.012*	.029	.010***	− .036	.013***	− .004	.020†
Caring activities: children, household members with a disability, family size
Presence of children [0, 6]	− .014	.013†	− .016	.012†	− .032	.015*	.013	.017†
Presence of elderly persons without disability	− .007	.014†	− .024	.016†	.011	.022*	.017	.024†
Person with disability in the household	− .073	.010***	− .057	.011***	− .117	.011***	− .102	.011***
Person with strong disability in the household	− .121	.014***	− .104	.014***	− .102	.017***	− .052	.028***
Family size	.013	.009†	.027	.008***	.025	.006***	.021	.005***
Yearly dummies
2008–2012	.003	.011†	− .015	.010†	.036	.012***	.037	.013***
2009–2013	− .021	.012*	− .018	.013†	.035	.012***	.027	.013*
2010–2014	− .029	.012*	− .015	.013†	.053	.013***	.030	.013*
Rho	− .628	.094***	− .235	.201†	.396	.230***	.170	.412*
Observations	9373		9000		7688		6893

The AMEs statistically different from one period to the other are shown in bold

Note Average marginal effects, standard errors and significance levels: ^†p < 0.10, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

Source Authors’ calculations on 2007–2010 and 2011–2014 EU-SILC data