From: The impact of health insurance programs for children: evidence from Vietnam
Explanatory variables | Panel data VHLSSs 2006–2008 | Panel data VHLSSs 2010–2012 | ||||
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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 |