Flat-of-the-curve medicine: a new perspective on the production of health

Health Economics Review

Table 4 Determinants of variability of age at death above the modal year (sd _mode), 1983-2005

Explanatory variable	Coef.	z	P>z
HCE _-5	-0.056	-2.49	0.013
	0.005	0.47	0.639
GDP	-0.058	-2.97	0.001
GDP ²	0.002	0.15	0.881
ALC _-10	0.061	0.28	0.776
	-0.017	-0.36	0.719
constant	1.774	5.52	0.000
rho _ar	0.217
Wald χ²	2,284
Prob>χ²	0.000
R-squared	0.2921
Observations	430

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