Does happiness matter to health system efficiency? A performance analysis

Health Economics Review

Table 2 Results of double bootstrap DEA

Variables	Bootstrap coefficients	Bootstrap standard deviation	95% Bootstrap CI.^a
Variables	Bootstrap coefficients	Bootstrap standard deviation	Lower	Upper
HAPPINESS	−0.2478***	0.0315	−0.3123	−0.1905
DENSITY	−0.0187***	0.0048	−0.0287	−0.0096
GDP_SHARE	−0.0399**	0.0178	−0.0746	−0.0040

Notes
Dependent variable: Inefficiency scores (i.e. \( {\hat{\uptheta}}_{\mathrm{m}}^{\ast \ast }>1 \))
C.I. Confidence intervals
***and **represent statistical significance at levels 1 and 5% respectively
^a The figures are computed by 2000 bootstrap interactions

ISSN: 2191-1991