Effect of reducing cost sharing for outpatient care on children’s inpatient services in Japan

Health Economics Review

Table 5 Results for the effect of raising the upper age limit on the number of admissions

	(1)	(2)	(3)
	Total area	Low-income areas	High-income areas
ln(upper age limit of outpatient care)	0.027 [0.032]	−0.200 [0.100]	0.071 [0.03]
ln(upper age limit of inpatient care)	0.028 [0.039]	0.100 [0.069]	0.015 [0.049]
N	2780	1390	1390
AIC	17,782.07	7750.513	10,012.18

Notes: Only coefficients of the main explanatory variable are reported. The dependent variable is the number of total admissions, and explanatory variables are the dummy variables for whether the local government imposed an income cap and whether it imposed a minimal user charge, regional average income, time fixed effects, and individual fixed effects. Robust standard errors are clustered at the municipality level and reported in brackets

ISSN: 2191-1991