Table 5 Determinants of life insurance consumption (all sample 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

0.9713*** (0.0088)

1.0035*** (0.0255)

0.9855*** (0.0418)

lnGDP

0.0629 (0.0419)

−0.1077 (0.0791)

−0.0633 (0.0839)

lnEFI

0.2658** (0.1183)

0.4085** (0.2081)

0.3550** (0.1709)

lnPHS

0.0326 (0.0220)

0.0844*** (0.0302)

0.0836** (0.0387)

lnIND

−0.0221 (0.0262)

−0.0341 (0.0373)

−0.0197 (0.0570)

lnIDV

−0.0382* (0.0224)

−0.0264* (0.0145)

−0.0313** (0.0151)

lnLTO

0.0053 (0.0243)

0.0143 (0.0214)

0.0191 (0.0274)

lnMAS

−0.0088 (0.0117)

−0.0226* (0.0127)

−0.0168 (0.0141)

lnUAI

−0.0729** (0.0326)

−0.0400 (0.0429)

−0.0605 (0.0570)

lnHPM

−0.0099 (0.0178)

0.0061 (0.0262)

0.0046 (0.0226)

lnPDI

0.0094 (0.0222)

−0.0026 (0.0193)

−0.0026 (0.0336)

lnFDV

−0.0440*** (0.0151)

−0.0652*** (0.0193)

−0.0550** (0.0218)

lnHDI

−1.2121*** (0.2893)

−0.8096** (0.3871)

−0.9473** (0.4019)

lnURB

0.0416 (0.0426)

0.0462 (0.0420)

0.0386 (0.0393)

lnLEX

0.6068** (0.2388)

0.6440** (0.2919)

0.6077* (0.3352)

lnDEP

−0.1793*** (0.0643)

−0.2055*** (0.0610)

−0.1971*** (0.0607)

lnSSE

0.0203 (0.0209)

0.0104 (0.0327)

0.0095 (0.0298)

CML

0.0255 (0.0244)

0.0313* (0.0184)

0.0315* (0.0171)

MUS

−0.0004 (0.0004)

0.0006 (0.0005)

0.0003 (0.0007)

Observations

674

674

674

R-squared

0.994

0.993

0.994

Hansen test (p-value)

–

1.000

1.000

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

–

0.160

0.167

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

–

0.158

0.165

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

–

0.921

0.911

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