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Table 3 Second stage IV-2SLS regression for satisfaction with lifea

From: Understanding the value of social networks in life satisfaction of elderly people: a comparative study of 16 European countries using SHARE data

Variables

Austria

Germany

Sweden

Netherlands

Spain

Italy

France

Denmark

Switzerland

Belgium

Czech Rep.

Poland

Hungary

Portugal

Slovenia

Estonia

Age

0.056b

−0.008

0.121b

0.044

0.078b

−0.006

0.033

0.146c

−0.027

−0.003

0.064b

0.058

−0.029

0.032

−0.089b

−0.054a

 

(0.027)

(0.065)

(0.052)

(0.029)

(0.037)

(0.036)

(0.027)

(0.035)

(0.026)

(0.025)

(0.031)

(0.067)

(0.049)

(0.068)

(0.042)

(0.033)

Partner in same hh

−0.077

0.072

0.279a

0.058

0.133

0.481c

0.144a

0.072

0.050

0.320c

0.275b

0.110

0.053

−0.217

0.252b

0.104

 

(0.125)

(0.155)

(0.147)

(0.104)

(0.137)

(0.100)

(0.079)

(0.198)

(0.099)

(0.073)

(0.131)

(0.191)

(0.153)

(0.266)

(0.116)

(0.115)

ADL

−0.294c

−0.214c

−0.323c

−0.223c

−0.236c

−0.344c

−0.160c

−0.185c

−0.357c

−0.197c

−0.295c

−0.198c

−0.317c

−0.320c

−0.206c

−0.282c

 

(0.034)

(0.055)

(0.045)

(0.045)

(0.033)

(0.041)

(0.034)

(0.062)

(0.057)

(0.028)

(0.038)

(0.046)

(0.049)

(0.051)

(0.045)

(0.028)

Health index

0.529c

0.608c

0.390c

0.315c

0.630c

0.523c

0.509c

0.354c

0.493c

0.411c

0.636c

0.568c

0.651c

0.537c

0.447c

0.689c

 

(0.023)

(0.050)

(0.029)

(0.023)

(0.036)

(0.029)

(0.023)

(0.029)

(0.024)

(0.022)

(0.027)

(0.055)

(0.044)

(0.055)

(0.035)

(0.033)

Income Quintile 2

0.178b

0.377c

0.100

0.051

0.079

0.278c

0.234c

0.196b

0.204c

0.171c

−0.010

−0.022

0.397c

−0.261

0.101

0.274c

 

(0.072)

(0.135)

(0.108)

(0.075)

(0.102)

(0.088)

(0.071)

(0.099)

(0.070)

(0.066)

(0.076)

(0.150)

(0.118)

(0.161)

(0.105)

(0.079)

Income Quintile 3

0.371c

0.455c

−0.030

0.145a

0.080

0.263c

0.310c

0.144

0.312c

0.175c

−0.006

0.050

0.436c

−0.334b

0.233b

0.342c

 

(0.074)

(0.138)

(0.112)

(0.076)

(0.114)

(0.092)

(0.073)

(0.114)

(0.074)

(0.067)

(0.078)

(0.153)

(0.121)

(0.164)

(0.109)

(0.083)

Income Quintile 4

0.303c

0.526c

0.017

0.132

0.087

0.283c

0.473c

0.196a

0.268c

0.227c

0.113

0.076

0.363c

0.002

0.343c

0.542c

 

(0.078)

(0.139)

(0.118)

(0.081)

(0.107)

(0.095)

(0.076)

(0.112)

(0.075)

(0.070)

(0.083)

(0.154)

(0.131)

(0.174)

(0.113)

(0.080)

Income Quintile 5

0.336c

0.748c

−0.013

0.121

0.318c

0.483c

0.528c

0.419c

0.410c

0.204c

0.442c

0.437c

0.690c

−0.115

0.560c

0.749c

 

(0.085)

(0.154)

(0.123)

(0.081)

(0.116)

(0.102)

(0.080)

(0.121)

(0.079)

(0.068)

(0.083)

(0.159)

(0.130)

(0.164)

(0.117)

(0.082)

Years of education

−0.001

−0.023

−0.022b

0.008

0.016b

0.016b

0.015a

0.003

0.005

0.016c

0.045c

0.082c

0.053c

0.065c

0.014

0.006

 

(0.005)

(0.015)

(0.009)

(0.008)

(0.008)

(0.008)

(0.008)

(0.006)

(0.004)

(0.006)

(0.009)

(0.019)

(0.018)

(0.019)

(0.012)

(0.008)

Friends share in social network

−0.019c

−0.013

−0.016b

−0.024c

−0.029c

−0.011b

−0.010c

−0.019a

−0.012c

−0.014c

−0.014a

−0.022

−0.022

−0.045b

−0.000

−0.007

 

(0.005)

(0.008)

(0.008)

(0.006)

(0.009)

(0.005)

(0.004)

(0.010)

(0.004)

(0.003)

(0.008)

(0.014)

(0.015)

(0.021)

(0.005)

(0.007)

Constant

4.281c

5.468b

2.766

5.492c

2.686b

4.867c

3.439c

1.824

6.792c

5.488c

1.803a

1.901

3.847b

4.626b

8.043c

5.370c

 

(0.894)

(2.286)

(1.802)

(0.994)

(1.324)

(1.231)

(0.902)

(1.140)

(0.868)

(0.815)

(1.043)

(2.362)

(1.653)

(2.175)

(1.433)

(1.086)

Observations

5,034

1,499

1,870

2,686

3,359

3,224

5,244

2,163

3,569

4,963

5,619

1,601

2,939

1,941

2,496

6,337

R-squared

0.120

0.165

0.112

−0.126

0.010

0.184

0.138

0.014

0.147

0.090

0.170

0.123

0.158

−0.002

0.141

0.143

Cragg-Donald-Wald F-statistics

30.88c

14.01c

28.10c

30.88c

22.83c

30.98c

55.42c

24.70c

32.27c

29.60c

50.140c

18.28c

40.23c

31.92c

31.92c

21.52c

p-value

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

Durbin-Wu-Hausman test

0.322c

14.749c

0.459

11.969c

9.460c

15.138c

2.810a

0.741a

0.069a

2.249

0.865b

0.278

1.006b

0.757a

1.349

0.367

p-value

0.000

0.000

0.497

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.093

0.070

0.079

0.133

0.028

0.597

0.031

0.095

0.245

0.544

Underidentif. test

254.15c

130.08c

247.199c

279.27c

215.29c

284.69c

503.37c

223.98c

297.89c

280.66c

462.25c

151.13c

189.46c

153.21c

151.14c

556.04c

Chi-sq (p-value)

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.278

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

Sargan statistic

14.1762a

13.439

14.049

17.379a

12.635

6.622

17.109b

19.342b

17.849b

4.290c

5.662

9.439

2.308

6.387

2.633

6.579

Chi-sq (p-value)

0.077

0.143

0.012

0.053

0.179

0.674

0.050

0.032

0.037

0.000

0.773

0.306

0.679

0.172

0.621

0.159

  1. Notes: asignificant at 10%; bsignificant at 5%; csignificant at 1%; Standard deviations in parentheses; dInstrumented variable is composition of network (share of reported number of friends over the total number of persons in the network); Other control variables included:, Age squared, Number of cars, Currently residing in a nursery