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

Health Economics Review

Table 5 Bivariate tobit results for hours worked off-farm by the spouse

Variables	Parameter estimates	Standard error	Marginal effects
Sp_Age	0.8931^***	(0.2571)	0.88983^***
Sp_Agesq	?0.0115^***	(0.0028)	?0.00004^***
Sp_Educ	?0.5963^**	(0.2479)	?0.00067^***
Sp_Miles	0.0213^***	(0.0024)	0.01651^***
Sp_Hinsurance	85.2026^***	(4.3399)	82.5941^***
Of_Wage	0.1232	(0.1965)	0.00000
Decoupled_Payments	?0.0745^***	(0.0134)	?0.02185^***
Coupled_Payments	?0.0035	(0.0083)	?0.00110
Farm_Sales	?0.0012^***	(0.0002)	?0.00028^***
Household_Size	?0.5262^**	(0.2428)	?0.01318^***
Dairy_farm	?6.9291^***	(0.9781)	?3.05645^***
R_Heartland	0.9716	(1.3928)	0.52927
R_Northern Crescent	?1.3571	(1.5300)	?0.61083
R_Northern Great Plains	?1.7883	(1.5954)	?0.85499
R_Prairie Gateway	?2.0328	(1.4505)	?0.92525
R_Eastern Upland	?2.6948^*	(1.4695)	?1.21925^*
R_Southern Seaboard	?1.6355	(1.4328)	?0.73462
R_Fruitful Rim	?4.0687^***	(1.5186)	?1.71412^***
R_Basin and Range	?3.2057^*	(1.7154)	?1.52402^*
y2007	?1.2273^*	(0.6605)
y2008	?0.4432	(0.7134)
Constant	?7.8118	(7.4883)
Sigma Spouse	26.4324^***	(0.2438)
Rho	0.3652^***	(0.0214)
N		11,262
? ²		2,899.96^***

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

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