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Table 5 Income and the rate of reimbursement (restricted samples)

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

Dependent Variable: Rate of reimbursement received

   

Model

Ordinary least squares

Tobit

 

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

0.034e

−0.005

0.032d

0.107c

0.006

0.090c

 

−1.856

(−1.341)

−2.329

−3.769

−0.663

−4.177

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

  

−0.036c

  

−0.088c

   

(−2.600)

  

(−3.860)

Transfer incomea

−0.007

0.004d

0.003e

0.045c

0.010d

0.013c

 

(−0.687)

−2.135

−1.69

−2.689

−2.188

−2.829

2009 dummy

 

.

0.405c

 

.

1.280c

  

.

−3.978

 

.

−7.778

2011 dummy

 

−0.020e

0.386c

 

−0.144c

1.117c

  

(−1.937)

−3.78

 

(−6.513)

−6.753

NCMS member dummy

   

1.255c

0.219c

0.409c

    

−4.965

−3.596

−8.045

SRHS = 2 dummy

0.02

0.001

0.002

0

0.004

0.007

 

−0.34

−0.081

−0.179

−0.002

−0.162

−0.288

SRHS = 3 dummy

−0.013

0.008

0.005

0.221d

0.102c

0.118c

 

(−0.233)

−0.644

−0.393

−2.553

−3.748

−4.548

SRHS = 4 dummy

−0.077

0.056

−0.048e

0.046

0.428c

0.136c

 

(−1.542)

−1.07

(−1.957)

−0.596

−3.247

−2.987

N

246

1792

2038

1720

3741

5461

R-squaredb

0.162

0.025

0.095

   

Chi-squaredb

   

215.942

435.247

1316.162

P-statb

0.012

0.007

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