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Table 4 Income and the amount of reimbursement

From: Making health insurance pro-poor: evidence from a household panel in rural China

Dependent Variable: Ln of reimbursement amount received (2004 RMB)

  

Model

Ordinary least squares

Tobit

Specification

R1

R2

R3

T1

T2

T3

 

Pre-reform

Post-Reform

Three waves, with interaction terms

Pre-reform

Post-Reform

Three waves, with interaction terms

 

2006

2009, 2011

2006, 2009, 2011

2006

2009, 2011

2006, 2009, 2011

Non-transfer income (ln)a

0.138

−0.056d

0.254c

0.929c

0.03

0.750c

 

−1.351

(−1.987)

−2.596

−3.483

−0.42

−4.143

(Reform dummy) x (Non-transfer income)a

  

−0.316c

  

−0.764c

   

(−3.123)

  

(−3.948)

Transfer incomea

0.008

−0.005

−0.013

0.442c

0.057

0.083d

 

−0.14

(−0.345)

(−0.882)

−2.789

−1.474

−2.189

2009 dummy

 

.

2.732c

 

.

10.708c

  

.

−3.723

 

.

−7.695

2011 dummy

 

0.464c

3.217c

 

−0.845c

9.691c

  

−6.01

−4.371

 

(−4.564)

−6.928

NCMS member dummy

   

11.965c

1.864c

3.647c

    

−5.15

−3.658

−8.397

SRHS = 2 dummy

0.373

0.124

0.134

0.218

0.108

0.15

 

−1.149

−1.446

−1.615

−0.276

−0.508

−0.721

SRHS = 3 dummy

0.663d

0.741c

0.727c

2.595c

1.313c

1.483c

 

−2.141

−8.306

−8.478

−3.192

−5.808

−6.706

SRHS = 4 dummy

−0.683d

0.628

−0.098

0.466

3.644c

1.332c

 

(−2.464)

−1.609

(−0.549)

−0.644

−3.304

−3.438

N

246

1792

2038

1720

3741

5461

R-squaredb

0.440

0.294

0.300

   

Chi-squaredb

   

253.03

550.57

1392.6

P-statb

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

  1. Puding panel data excluding 2004 (pre-NCMS). R1, R2, R3: sample restricted to those who received reimbursement; T1, T2, T3: sample restricted to those who sought treatment. All specifications include controls for sex, age, education, marital status, minority status, farmer status, household size, village, place of diagnostic and type of treatment used this year. SRHS = self-reported health status, see Table 2. a: Transfer refers to income received under any local or national governmental programs other than NCMS. b: Overall model fit statistics. c, d,e: Significantly different from zero at the 0.01, 0.05 and 0.1 level, respectively