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. 2022 Apr 11;63(6):3211–3251. doi: 10.1007/s00181-022-02226-4

Table 3.

Summary of the effect size of health on economic growth

Obs τ2 Ires2 Mean CI 95%
Average pcc
Simple average 719 0.255 0.234 0.276
Simple average with outliers 747 0.274 0.252 0.296
Simple average WAAP 83 0.231 0.166 0.297
Simple average GDP per capita 587 0.254 0.232 0.276
Simple average GDP 132 0.260 0.193 0.326
Fixed effect 719 0.113 0.110 0.117
RE-EB 719 0.074 96.29% 0.248 0.227 0.269
RE-REML 719 0.072 96.20% 0.248 0.227 0.269

WAAP is weighted average of the adequately powered, GDP is gross domestic product, RE-EB is random-effects empirical Bayes, RE-REML is random-effects restricted maximum likelihood