Table 7 Determinants of life insurance consumption (emerging and developing economies).

From: National culture, public health spending and life insurance consumption: an international comparison

 

Pooled OLS

System GMM (Full instruments)

System GMM (Partial instruments)

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

lagged lnLIFE_INS

0.8840*** (0.0269)

0.8752*** (0.0344)

0.8777*** (0.0426)

lnGDP

−0.0187 (0.1137)

−0.0066 (0.2635)

−0.0241 (0.1478)

lnEFI

0.8996*** (0.2390)

0.5664** (0.2756)

0.8122** (0.3502)

lnPHS

0.1274*** (0.0466)

0.1193** (0.0489)

0.1240*** (0.0378)

lnIND

0.0857 (0.1018)

0.1189 (0.0739)

0.1048 (0.0798)

lnIDV

0.1503 (0.0979)

0.0811 (0.1686)

0.1388 (0.1677)

lnLTO

−0.0767 (0.1108)

−0.0062 (0.1344)

−0.0567 (0.1281)

lnMAS

−0.2318*** (0.0860)

−0.1889 (0.1221)

−0.2220* (0.1214)

lnUAI

−0.8836*** (0.2606)

−0.7313** (0.3120)

−0.8489** (0.3828)

lnPDI

−0.0391 (0.1283)

−0.1481 (0.2174)

−0.0687 (0.1585)

lnHPM

−0.0384 (0.0519)

−0.0423 (0.0574)

−0.0441 (0.0347)

lnFDV

−0.0729 (0.0442)

−0.0637 (0.0729)

−0.0633 (0.0844)

lnHDI

−1.2968** (0.5156)

−1.1037 (0.9765)

−1.2166* (0.6979)

lnURB

0.1098 (0.1099)

0.0703 (0.0954)

0.1133 (0.0831)

lnLEX

0.4965 (0.4766)

0.5813 (0.5414)

0.4909 (0.4812)

lnDEP

−0.4514** (0.1806)

−0.4333* (0.2489)

−0.4556** (0.2254)

lnSSE

0.0818* (0.0479)

0.0658 (0.1044)

0.0798 (0.1022)

CML

−0.2574 (0.1981)

−0.1226 (0.2852)

−0.2271 (0.2850)

MUS

−0.0020** (0.0008)

−0.0021** (0.0009)

−0.0021*** (0.0008)

Observations

287

287

287

R-squared

0.981

0.981

0.981

Hansen test (p-value)

1.000

1.000

Arellano-Bond test for AR(2) (p-value)

0.269

0.236

Arellano-Bond test for AR(3) (p-value)

0.100

0.089

Arellano-Bond test for AR(4) (p-value)

0.753

0.770

  1. *,**, and *** denote significance at the 10, 5 and 1% level, respectively. Figures enclosed in brackets represent standard errors.