Table 8 Determinants of life insurance consumption (using IV regression and FGLS estimator for robustness check, and all sample countries).

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

 

System GMM

IV

FGLS

AMG

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

lagged lnLIFE_INS

0.9855*** (0.0418)

0.9759*** (0.0104)

0.9743*** (0.0087)

−0.0883 (0.1048)

lnGDP/lagged lnGDP

−0.0633 (0.0839)

0.0160 (0.0437)

0.0336 (0.0410)

−1.2086 (4.1571)

lnEFI/lagged lnEFI

0.3550** (0.1709)

0.1634 (0.2240)

0.1656 (0.1125)

1.0281 (0.8894)

lnPHS

0.0836** (0.0387)

0.0401** (0.0200)

0.0411* (0.0217)

1.0927* (0.6357)

lnIND

−0.0197 (0.0570)

−0.0265 (0.0276)

−0.0247 (0.0256)

lnIDV

−0.0313** (0.0151)

−0.0267 (0.0229)

−0.0373* (0.0219)

lnLTO

0.0191 (0.0274)

0.0013 (0.0289)

0.0109 (0.0238)

lnMAS

−0.0168 (0.0141)

−0.0074 (0.0091)

−0.0087 (0.0115)

lnUAI

−0.0605 (0.0570)

−0.0699** (0.0336)

−0.0712** (0.0319)

lnHPM

0.0046 (0.0226)

−0.0028 (0.0195)

0.0019 (0.0216)

lnPDI

−0.0026 (0.0336)

−0.0053 (0.0219)

−0.0053 (0.0175)

lnFDV

−0.0550** (0.0218)

−0.0413*** (0.0117)

−0.0435*** (0.0148)

1.2845 (1.1198)

lnHDI

−0.9473** (0.4019)

−0.9858*** (0.3399)

−1.0747*** (0.2827)

−7.2327*** (2.6355)

lnURB

0.0386 (0.0393)

0.0571 (0.0356)

0.0425 (0.0417)

53.9692 (70.8763)

lnLEX

0.6077* (0.3352)

0.6998*** (0.2565)

0.6351*** (0.2334)

−182.1561 (171.7443)

lnDEP

−0.1971*** (0.0607)

−0.1591*** (0.0609)

−0.1725*** (0.0630)

2.1298 (7.3526)

lnSSE

0.0095 (0.0298)

0.0056 (0.0363)

0.0148 (0.0203)

1.5160*** (0.5496)

CML

0.0315* (0.0171)

0.0257 (0.0210)

0.0305 (0.0238)

MUS

0.0003 (0.0007)

−0.0002 (0.0004)

−0.0003 (0.0008)

Observations

674

634

674

731

R-squared

0.994

0.994

0.994

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  1. *,**, and *** correspond to significance at the 10, 5 and 1% level, respectively. Figures enclosed in brackets represent standard errors. Although included in the model, constant and time dummy variables are not reported here. Definitions of variables can be found in Table A1 within the Appendix.