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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 8.
Published in final edited form as: Am Econ Rev. 2021 Aug;111(8):2697–2735. doi: 10.1257/aer.20190825

Table 3:

Mortality Components

Standard Deviation
Mortality Index (γj+θ¯j) 0.099 [0.095, 0.103]
Unadjusted:
 Place Effects (γj) 0.077 [0.067, 0.087]
 Health Capital (θ¯j) 0.073 [0.057, 0.085]
 Correlation of γj and θ¯j −0.139 [−0.322, 0.281]
Selection Corrected:
 Place Effects (γj) 0.054 [0.040, 0.069]
 Health Capital (θ¯j) 0.088 [0.071, 0.099]
 Correlation of γj and θ¯j −0.093 [−0.322, 0.413]

Notes: These standard deviations across CZ give equal weight to each CZ and standard deviations for the mortality index, place effects, and health capital use the split-sample approach. 95% confidence intervals are computed using 100 replications of the Bayesian bootstrap. For the “unadjusted” results in the top panel, γj is defined as the destination fixed effects τ^jdest from equation (3), and average health capital θ¯j is given by the average value of the remaining terms in that equation (excluding the age term aiβ) within each bootstrap and split-sample. For the “selection corrected” results in the bottom panel, γj is defined as the difference τ^jdestη^jdest, where τ^jdest is the destination fixed effect from equation (3) and the unobservable component η^jdest is inferred following the steps broken out in Table 2; average health capital θ¯j is then calculated using the same approach as in the unadjusted results. Within each bootstrap, the correlation of γj and θ¯j are calculated as [Var(γj+θ¯j)Var(γj)Var(θ¯j)]/[2StDev(γj)StDev(θ¯j)], with each variance and standard deviation calculated using the split-sample approach.