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Table 8 Regressions of health care of children

From: The impact of health insurance programs for children: evidence from Vietnam

Explanatory variables

Panel data VHLSSs 2006–2008

Panel data VHLSSs 2010–2012

Poisson regression: Number of health visits

OLS: Having out-of-pocket expenditure on health care

OLS: Log of out-of-pocket expenditure per health care visit

Poisson regression: Number of health visits

OLS: Having out-of-pocket expenditure on health care

OLS: Log of out-of-pocket expenditure per health care visit

Student health insurance

0.0982

0.0150

−0.2119**

0.1013

0.0222

0.0609

 

(0.0950)

(0.0160)

(0.1008)

(0.1247)

(0.0220)

(0.1202)

Free health insurance

0.3608***

0.0491**

−0.5050***

0.1437

0.0299

0.0212

 

(0.1169)

(0.0217)

(0.1243)

(0.1378)

(0.0246)

(0.1440)

Enrolment in school

−0.1301

0.0037

−0.0778

−0.3683**

−0.0335

0.1840

 

(0.1518)

(0.0242)

(0.2003)

(0.1842)

(0.0306)

(0.1839)

Log of per capita income

0.2186***

0.0622***

0.1773***

0.0842

0.0538***

0.3878***

 

(0.0524)

(0.0117)

(0.0643)

(0.0614)

(0.0127)

(0.0762)

Household size

−0.1585***

−0.0194***

−0.0098

−0.1322***

−0.0319***

−0.0129

 

(0.0260)

(0.0044)

(0.0280)

(0.0319)

(0.0051)

(0.0331)

Proportion of children

0.0783

0.1296***

0.1677

0.5256**

−0.0290

0.2029

 

(0.2461)

(0.0434)

(0.2932)

(0.2648)

(0.0498)

(0.3386)

Proportion of elderly

0.1184

0.0358

−0.5145

0.5754

0.0128

0.1305

 

(0.3008)

(0.0676)

(0.3766)

(0.3584)

(0.0759)

(0.4110)

Number of doctors per 1000 people

−0.5454*

−0.0780

0.1115

−1.3702***

−0.2046***

1.5473***

(0.3140)

(0.0580)

(0.3025)

(0.3341)

(0.0639)

(0.4143)

Number of hospital per 1000 people

−0.3128**

−0.0716***

0.9451

0.1576

0.0346

−0.4301***

(0.1284)

(0.0164)

(1.2841)

(0.0962)

(0.0214)

(0.1280)

Dummy year (2008 or 2012)

−0.6285***

−0.0654***

0.4575***

−0.3741***

−0.0769***

−0.1087

 

(0.0782)

(0.0146)

(0.0867)

(0.0830)

(0.0167)

(0.0954)

Constant

−0.5512

−0.1144

2.2843***

0.3076

0.0346

0.4203

 

(0.5732)

(0.1163)

(0.6500)

(0.6882)

(0.1312)

(0.8111)

Observations

5,013

5,013

1,279

4,110

4,110

1,094

R-squared

 

0.027

0.052

 

0.028

0.057

  1. Note: Dummy years: for regressions using the 2006 and 2008 VHLSS, the dummy year is equal 1 for 2008 and 0 for 2006. For regressions using the 2010 and 2012 VHLSS, the dummy year is equal 1 for 2012 and 0 for 2010
  2. Robust standard errors in parentheses
  3. Source: Estimates from VHLSSs 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012
  4. *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1