Table 4.

ARDL estimates of human health (Robustness).

	IM		LE
Variable	Coefficient	t -Statistic	Coefficient	t -Statistic
Short-run
HEDU	−0.044	1.554	0.013	0.267
FIE	−0.837	0.172	0.025**	2.113
FIE (−1)	0.985	1.240	0.378**	2.329
FIE (−2)	0.072	1.247	0.310**	2.569
GDP	−1.134***	8.733	1.450***	9.654
GDP (−1)	1.166***	6.052	−1.603***	5.738
GDP (−2)			0.493*	1.678
ICT	0.027	0.476	0.024**	2.416
ICT (−1)	−0.183	1.537
ICT (−2)	0.268	3.779
Patent	−1.345***	2.975	0.032	1.261
Long-run
HEDU	−0.101*	1.818	0.032**	2.261
FIE	−1.009	0.846	1.786***	2.623
GDP	−1.294***	5.833	2.281***	6.278
ICT	−0.261***	6.249	0.026**	2.102
Patent	−2.130***	3.214	0.212	1.343
C	7.842***	13.36	4.139***	23.24
Diagnostics
F-test	13.21***		12.25***
ECM (−1)*	−0.430***	11.31	−0.549***	10.81
LM	1.452		0.332
BP	1.254		1.254
RESET	0.687		1.874
CUSUM	S		S
CUSUM-sq	S		S

^*p < 0.1,

^**p < 0.05,

^***p < 0.01.