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Table 4 Estimated effect of national income (natural logged GDP per capita) considering three-year lagged sustainable income change as well as demographic structure and health condition on health expenditure per capita 1) in SEAR countries

From: Is healthcare a ‘Necessity’ or ‘Luxury’? an empirical evidence from public and private sector analyses of South-East Asian countries?

Explanatory variables

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Total expenditure

Public expenditure

Private expenditure

FEM

REM

FEM

REM

FEM

REM

Constant

- 10.579(0.000)***

- 4.698(0.028)***

- 9.009(0.000)***

- 11.218(0.001)***

-22.458(0.000)***

- 2.669(0.310)

GDP per capita1)

0.918(0.002)***

1.862(0.018)***

0.684(0.058)**

2.001(0.114)

1.452(0.000)***

1.939(0.046)**

Lag 1 of GDP per capita1)

- 0.062(0.834)

- 0.429(0.598)

- 0.155(0.668)

0.007(0.996)

- 0.239(0.495)

- 1.221(0.224)

Lag 2 of GDP per capita1)

- 0.034(0.734)

- 0.026(0.927)

- 0.012(0.924)

- 0.007(0.988)

- 0.057(0.625)

- 0.059(0.868)

Lag 3 of GDP per capita1)

0.036(0.640)

0.009(0.967)

0.022(0.816)

- 0.158(0.634)

- 0.016(0.858)

0.217(0.395)

Female population

0.128(0.000)***

- 0.005(0.915)

0.092(0.035)**

0.083(0.234)

0.326(0.000)*

- 0.057(0.291)

Urban population

0.025(0.002)***

- 0.025(0.000)***

0.030(0.002)***

- 0.026(0.000)***

0.008(0.402)

- 0.025(0.000)***

Elderly population

0.061(0.135)

- 0.234(0.000)***

0.197(0.000)***

- 0.316(0.000)***

- 0.319(0.000)***

- 0.151(0.001)***

Life expectancy at birth

0.018(0.139)

0.005(0.680)

0.038(0.012)***

- 0.015(0.421)

0.036(0.014)***

0.054(0.000)***

Observation (N)

125

125

125

125

125

125

R2(R-squared)

-

-

-

-

-

-

Within

0.8548

0.3816

0.8542

0.2026

0.6807

0.3627

Between

0.4869

0.8485

0.2897

0.7167

0.4507

0.7119

Overall

0.5363

0.8037

0.3936

0.7091

0.4500

0.6629

F-statistics

79.46(0.000)***

-

79.08 (0.000)***

-

28.78(0.000)***

-

Wald chi2 (5)

-

475.01(0.000)***

-

282.81(0.000)***

-

228.11(0.000)***

Hausman test

Chi2 (8) =102.88 (0.000)***

Chi2 (8) =108.51 (0.000)***

Chi2 (8) =104.02 (0.000)***

  1. NB: 1) Natural logged, ***, ** and * denotes significant at 1%, 5% and 10% risk level respectively.