Table 6 Determinants of life insurance consumption (advanced 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

0.9568*** (0.0134)

0.8968*** (0.0342)

0.9433*** (0.0402)

lnGDP

0.0564 (0.0608)

0.1159 (0.1206)

0.1205 (0.1494)

lnEFI

0.3790 (0.2827)

1.7636*** (0.6338)

1.3719* (0.7100)

lnPHS

0.0453 (0.0368)

0.1227* (0.0699)

0.0510 (0.0743)

lnIND

−0.0615* (0.0331)

−0.1002* (0.0512)

−0.0778* (0.0446)

lnIDV

−0.1111** (0.0454)

−0.2338** (0.1057)

−0.1648 (0.1047)

lnLTO

−0.0164 (0.0379)

−0.0695 (0.0527)

−0.0499 (0.0429)

lnMAS

−0.0061 (0.0146)

−0.0018 (0.0219)

−0.0132 (0.0256)

lnUAI

−0.1045** (0.0468)

−0.1780** (0.0834)

−0.1108 (0.0781)

lnPDI

0.0174 (0.0248)

0.1133*** (0.0431)

0.0699 (0.0471)

lnHPM

0.0146 (0.0262)

−0.0113 (0.0426)

−0.0102 (0.0400)

lnFDV

−0.0625*** (0.0184)

−0.0769*** (0.0216)

−0.0765*** (0.0204)

lnHDI

−1.0782** (0.4943)

−1.5071** (0.6102)

−1.3956** (0.6880)

lnURB

0.1685* (0.0874)

0.2361* (0.1386)

0.1615 (0.1202)

lnLEX

1.0620* (0.6435)

1.9700* (1.1933)

1.1649 (1.2183)

lnDEP

−0.0534 (0.1010)

−0.1145 (0.1247)

−0.0649 (0.1128)

lnSSE

−0.0241 (0.0387)

0.0602 (0.0615)

0.0370 (0.0659)

CML

0.0039 (0.0298)

−0.0409 (0.0493)

−0.0162 (0.0406)

MUS

0.0085 (0.0061)

0.0134 (0.0094)

0.0098 (0.0082)

Observations

387

387

387

R-squared

0.992

0.991

0.991

Hansen test (p-value)

–

1.000

1.000

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

–

0.056

0.058

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

–

0.320

0.317

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

–

0.822

0.773

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