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Table 3 Costs of disability by severity: pooled model (dependent variable: satisfaction with the financial situation)

From: The costs of disability in Australia: a hybrid panel-data examination

Key variables

Current period

Lagged period

 

Coef (SE)

Contemporaneous costs (% of income)

Coef (SE)

Long-termcosts (% of income)

Disability severity

    

No limitation

-0.09*** (0.02)

19%

-0.07*** (0.02)

37%

Some limitation

-0.33*** (0.02)

71%

-0.12*** (0.02)

63%

Severe limitation

-0.47*** (0.03)

102%

-0.18*** (0.03)

94%

Log of Income

0.46*** (0.01)

 

0.19*** (0.01)

 

Hausman test

χ2(4):

251

p-val:

0.00

Any disability

    

Disability

-0.23*** (0.01)

50%

-0.12*** (0.01)

63%

Log of income

0.46*** (0.01)

 

0.19*** (0.01)

 
  1. Note: Other covariates include age, gender, ethnicity education level, marital status and employment status of the respondent; household size, housing tenure status, region of residence (rural vs urban), SEIFA quintile, and a time trend.