Economics Research International

Research Article

Post-Communist Health Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe

Table 2

Estimation results for fixed cross-section effect models.


	Dependent variables—mortality rates
	IM				CM				AM				SR
Independent variables	Male		Female		Male		Female		Male		Female		Male		Female
Independent variables			B				B

BUL	80.87	0.000	60.05	0.000	97.12	0.000	75.10	0.000	3163	0.000	2320	0.000	44.19	0.002	14.79	0.001
CZE	78.84	0.000	57.67	0.000	94.44	0.000	72.30	0.000	3103	0.000	2278	0.000	47.39	0.002	14.33	0.002
HUN	80.04	0.000	59.90	0.000	96.72	0.000	74.46	0.000	3336	0.000	2343	0.000	65.97	0.000	19.38	0.000
POL	78.69	0.000	58.15	0.000	93.81	0.000	72.31	0.000	3044	0.000	2171	0.000	45.09	0.003	11.14	0.017
ROM	85.78	0.000	63.93	0.000	103.1	0.000	79.81	0.000	3079	0.000	2297	0.000	39.60	0.008	10.55	0.019
SLK	79.51	0.000	58.79	0.000	95.01	0.000	73.24	0.000	3214	0.000	2266	0.000	48.67	0.001	13.02	0.003
SLN	78.87	0.000	57.78	0.000	94.54	0.000	72.29	0.000	3038	0.000	2195	0.000	63.20	0.000	18.99	0.000

LRGDP	−7.097	0.000	−5.155	0.000	−8.526	0.000	−6.537	0.000	−178.2	0.000	−153.5	0.000	−2.252	0.211	−0.593	0.279
OPI	−0.014	0.098	−0.015	0.031	−0.013	0.180	−0.012	0.137	−2.036	0.000	−0.753	0.000	−0.094	0.000	−0.040	0.000
UDS	−2.066	0.004	−1.193	0.044	−2.544	0.005	−1.581	0.040	24.15	0.382	−1.237	0.931	4.493	0.000	0.502	0.205

	0.950		0.940		0.947		0.936		0.909		0.951		0.916		0.923
	132		132		132		132		132		132		126		126

Dependent variables—life expectancies
	LEB				LE45				LE65
Independent variables	Male		Female		Male		Female		Male		Female
Independent variables	B		B				B

BUL	42.69	0.000	50.09	0.000	12.59	0.000	14.24	0.000	3.204	0.052	−0.090	0.955
CZE	43.55	0.000	50.63	0.000	13.06	0.000	14.33	0.000	3.112	0.083	−0.039	0.982
HUN	40.21	0.000	49.14	0.000	10.53	0.000	13.38	0.000	2.626	0.131	−0.031	0.985
POL	43.43	0.000	52.06	0.000	13.18	0.000	15.70	0.000	3.875	0.031	1.403	0.420
ROM	42.57	0.000	49.87	0.000	13.07	0.000	14.40	0.000	3.920	0.025	0.347	0.837
SLK	41.87	0.000	50.55	0.000	11.73	0.000	14.40	0.000	2.708	0.114	0.179	0.915
SLN	43.91	0.000	51.88	0.000	13.82	0.000	15.66	0.000	3.751	0.037	1.233	0.482

LRGDP	2.702	0.000	2.730	0.000	1.513	0.000	2.018	0.000	1.006	0.000	1.721	0.000
OPI	0.021	0.000	0.012	0.000	0.015	0.000	0.008	0.000	0.010	0.000	0.006	0.002
UDS	−0.297	0.289	−0.010	0.962	−0.309	0.210	−0.064	0.721	−0.139	0.434	−0.069	0.674

	0.942		0.960		0.898		0.940		0.834		0.928
	132		132		132		132		132		132