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Table 9 Results for severity of illness

From: The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured

 

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Variables

Severity of illness

Severity of illness

Severity of illness

Severity of illness

Severity of illness

Uninsured

0.126***

0.0697***

0.0670***

−0.0205**

−0.0135**

(0.0166)

(0.0148)

(0.0115)

(0.00920)

(0.00647)

Income Q1

 

0.0486***

0.0629***

0.0351***

0.0434***

 

(0.0130)

(0.00821)

(0.00623)

(0.00370)

Income Q2

 

0.0333***

0.0467***

0.0269***

0.0386***

 

(0.0123)

(0.00971)

(0.00829)

(0.00303)

Income Q3

 

0.0200***

0.0256***

0.0152***

0.0203***

 

(0.00760)

(0.00574)

(0.00432)

(0.00232)

Black

 

0.0957***

0.0813***

0.0537***

0.0566***

 

(0.0118)

(0.00687)

(0.00562)

(0.00370)

Hispanic

 

−0.0120

−0.0260***

−0.0118*

−0.0112***

 

(0.0140)

(0.00865)

(0.00707)

(0.00339)

Other

 

−0.00968

−0.0223***

−0.00578

−0.00247

 

(0.0113)

(0.00847)

(0.00610)

(0.00393)

Female

 

−0.158***

−0.154***

−0.0389***

−0.0375***

 

(0.00367)

(0.00370)

(0.00171)

(0.00164)

Age

 

0.0129***

0.0130***

0.00961***

0.00981***

 

(0.000256)

(0.000241)

(0.000273)

(0.000264)

For-profit

  

−0.0158

−0.00834

 
  

(0.0142)

(0.0111)

 

Urban

  

0.0698***

0.0799***

 
  

(0.0164)

(0.0134)

 

Teaching

  

0.101***

0.0769***

 
  

(0.0143)

(0.0113)

 

State FE

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

Hospital FE

No

No

No

No

Yes

Primary diagnosis FE

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Observations

2,937,203

2,570,871

2,534,240

2,534,240

2,570,871

R-squared

0.002

0.131

0.144

0.311

0.325

  1. Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered at the hospital level
  2. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1