Effect of health shocks on the absenteeism magnitude at work in Togo: is health insurance a mitigating factor?

Health Economics Review

Table 4 First stage of the 2SLS regression results

	Occurrence of health shock	Occurrence of health shock
Number of people suffering from chronic disease	.1150***	.1836***
	(.0348)	(.0298)
HH health insurance	.0030
	(.0341)
Gender of HH
Feminine	.0123
Feminine	(.0156)
Household size	.0081***
	(.0030)
Place of residence
Rural	.0578***
Rural	(.0173)
Region
Plateaux	-.000
Plateaux	(.0213)
Central	.0024
Central	(.0230)
Kara	.0213
Kara	(.0217)
Savanes	-.051**
Savanes	(.0223)
Lomé commune	-.053**
Lomé commune	(.0253)
Quartile of expenditure
2e quartile	.0054
2e quartile	(.0164)
3e quartile	.0181
3e quartile	(.0186)
4e quartile	.0018
4e quartile	(.0227)
HH Professional Category
worker/laborer	.0059
worker/laborer	(.0400)
own account	.0216
own account	(.0407)
HH level of education
Primary	-.012
Primary	(.0162)
Secondaire1	-.008
Secondaire1	(.0177)
Secondaire2	-.035
Secondaire2	(.0256)
Upper	-.101***
Upper	(.0356)
Type of care
Public care	.0248*
Public care	(.0138)
Private care	.0405*
Private care	(.0215)
Number of children under 5	.0008
	(.0080)
_cons	.2059***
	(.0510)
F-test	10.48	37.79
R2	0.0414	0.0061
N	5606	5606

1. The Modalities retained as references for the categorical variables; Health coverage: not covered; Gender of CM: male; Place of residence: urban; Region: maritime; Well-being quartile: 1st quartile; Professional category of CM: Executive; Level of education of CM: none; type of care: No care
2. In parentheses the standard deviations of the estimators of the coefficients
^***significant at 1%
^**significant at 5%
^*significant at 10%

ISSN: 2191-1991