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. 2021 Aug 4;9:681604. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.681604

Table 3.

Sensitivity analyses of the KRLS results.

Sensitivity analysis: excluding OECD Europe Asia Africa South America Central & North America
Indicator (I) (II) (III) (IV) (V) (VI)
Share of population: ages 65 and above 0.003 (0.008) 0.005 (0.009) 0.008 (0.044) 0.003 (0.004) 0.005 (0.006) 0.008 (0.015)
Share of population: ages 0–14 −0.002 (0.005) −0.003 (0.005) −0.002 (0.003) −0.002 (0.005) −0.001 (0.004) −0.005 (0.011)
Log population density −0.034 (0.054) −0.044 (0.051) −0.004 (0.005) −0.019 (0.036) −0.027 (0.059) −0.006 (0.014)
Health equipment −0.017 (0.020) −0.023 (0.021) −0.002 (0.018) −0.001 (0.015) −0.007 (0.023) −0.002 (0.005)
Physicians −0.015 (0.035) −0.013 (0.038) −0.001 (0.002) −0.012 (0.028) −0.023 (0.036) −0.005 (0.008)
Average temperatures −0.004 (0.006) −0.004 (0.008) −0.001 (0.004) −0.001 (0.004) −0.001 (0.007) −0.001 (0.001)
Testing and tracking policies −0.072 (0.053) −0.078 (0.057) −0.006 (0.005) −0.049 (0.037) −0.090 (0.060) −0.021 (0.014)
Economic complexity 0.024 (0.077) 0.030 (0.064) 0.009 (0.039) 0.011 (0.038) 0.039 (0.056) 0.002 (0.012)
Post-tax Gini 0.457 (1.001) 0.539 (1.160) 0.033 (0.057) 0.287 (0.585) 0.171 (0.910) 0.019 (0.208)
Labor market regulations −0.040 (0.058) −0.041 (0.057) −0.005 (0.004) −0.016 (0.039) −0.044 (0.068) −0.009 (0.015)
Log globalization −0.473 (0.341) −0.467 (0.340) −0.003 (0.016) −0.224 (0.178) −0.316 (0.252) −0.080 (0.057)
Democracy/autocracy spectrum 0.002 (0.011) 0.004 (0.011) 0.002 (0.009) 0.004 (0.005) 0.005 (0.011) 0.001 (0.002)
Internal- and external conflicts 0.153*** (0.041) 0.177*** (0.045) 0.006** (0.002) 0.057** (0.026) 0.194*** (0.048) 0.031*** (0.010)
R-squared 0.1841 0.1846 0.2719 0.1447 0.2296 0.0487
Observations 86 86 85 91 110 108

The dependent variable is the case fatality rate (CFR). The robust standard errors are in ().

***

p < 0.01 and

**

p < 0.05.