Effect of health insurance coverage on labor allocation: evidence from US farm households

Health Economics Review

Table 4 Bivariate tobit results for hours worked off-farm by the operator

Variables	Parameter estimates	Standard error	Marginal effects
Op_Age	?0.0777	(0.3219)	0.00000
Op_AgeSq	?0.0027	(0.0032)	0.00000
Op_Educ	0.1168	(0.2168)	0.00000
Op_Miles	0.1991^***	(0.0107)	0.12894^***
Op_Hinsurance	103.4670^***	(3.2572)	99.4560^***
Of_Wage	0.2044	(0.2896)	0.20439
Decoupled_Payments	?0.4075^***	(0.0281)	?0.11850^***
Coupled_Payments	?0.0333^**	(0.0154)	?0.00946^**
Farm_Sales	?0.0010^**	(0.0004)	?0.00024^**
Household_Size	0.9400^***	(0.3191)	0.91646^***
Dairy_farm	?28.5782^***	(1.7309)	?12.6058^***
R_Heartland	?0.4679	(2.1113)	?0.22681
R_Northern Crescent	2.1882	(2.2940)	1.20937
R_Northern Great Plains	?1.7238	(2.4179)	?0.83510
R_Prairie Gateway	3.2268	(2.1801)	1.76193
R_Eastern Upland	1.4987	(2.1677)	0.78834
R_Southern Seaboard	?5.6698^***	(2.1646)	?2.45213^***
R_Fruitful Rim	0.2730	(2.2709)	0.13857
R_Basin and Range	?1.6285	(0.9695)	?0.79391
y2007	?2.4322^**	(0.9695)
y2008	?3.5023^***	(1.0426)
Constant	?16.7046^*	(9.9960)
Sigma Operator	34.3934^***	(0.4127)
Rho	0.3652^***	(0.0214)
N		11,262
? ²		2,842.78^***

***, **, and * indicate significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.

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