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Table 6 Estimation results with two-stage least square and two-system GMM

From: Public funding and young children vaccination coverage: Evidence from Socialist-Oriented Market Economy

Dependent variable:

Children under one year of age fully vaccinated

Estimators

XTIV2

GMM

GMM

GMM

GMM

GMM

Columns

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Children fully vaccinatedt-1

-0.071

0.068***

0.067***

0.019*

-0.069***

-0.055***

 

(0.052)

(0.012)

(0.009)

(0.011)

(0.008)

(0.008)

GEOSSt

0.043*

     
 

(0.025)

     

GEOSSt-1

 

0.002***

0.013***

0.011***

0.008***

0.008***

  

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

Population on logarithm

0.006

 

-0.016***

-0.036***

-0.078***

-0.083***

 

(0.032)

 

(0.001)

(0.002)

(0.007)

(0.009)

Literacy

-0.000

  

0.004***

0.006***

0.007***

 

(0.002)

  

(0.000)

(0.001)

(0.001)

Private sector labor share

0.001

    

-0.001

 

(0.001)

    

(0.001)

GRDP per capita on logarithm

-0.003

   

0.083***

0.086***

 

(0.029)

   

(0.014)

(0.016)

Time Fes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Province Fes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Observations

378

378

378

378

378

378

R-squared

0.071

     

Number of provinces/cities

63

63

63

63

63

63

External instruments

Balance tax sources from the central government and targeted tax revenues

Internal instruments

No

1-year lagged

1-year lagged

1-year lagged

1-year lagged

1-year lagged

Underidentification test (Anderson LM statistic) (p-value)

0.0016

     

Weak identification test (Cragg-Donald Wald F statistic)

9.977a

     

Arellano-Bond test for AR(1)

 

0.001

0.001

0.001

0.001

0.001

Arellano-Bond test for AR(2)

 

0.541

0.658

0.706

0.622

0.587

Hansen test of overid. Restrictions (p-value)

 

0.209

0.158

0.310

0.421

0.363

Difference-in-Hansen tests of exogeneity

 

0.212

0.191

0.320

0.453

0.450

  1. Source: Authors. The final data covers the years from 2014 to 2019. Standard errors are indicated in parentheses with significance levels: *** for p < 0.01, ** for p < 0.05, * for p < 0.1
  2. aCritical values for the Stock-Yogo weak identification test: (a) 10% maximal IV size: 16.38 and (b) 15% maximal IV size: 8.96