Impact of pilot public hospital reform on efficiencies: a DEA analysis of county hospitals in East China, 2009–2015

Table 5 Impact of pilot reform on hospital efficiency

Variables	(1)	(2)	(3)
Variables	Hospital Efficiency	Pure Technical Efficiency	Scale Efficiency
Post*Pilot Reform	−0.019	−0.030^**	0.023^**
Post*Pilot Reform	(0.012)	(0.012)	(0.010)
Log GDP per capita	−0.050	−0.068	0.019
Log GDP per capita	(0.054)	(0.055)	(0.034)
Log Government Revenue	0.008	−0.003	0.007
Log Government Revenue	(0.019)	(0.018)	(0.021)
Log Government Expenditure	−0.050^*	−0.037	−0.015
Log Government Expenditure	(0.028)	(0.025)	(0.037)
Services Industry Proportion	0.232	0.300^*	−0.061
Services Industry Proportion	(0.156)	(0.161)	(0.140)
Log Healthcare Institution Bed	−0.034	−0.022	−0.040^***
Log Healthcare Institution Bed	(0.021)	(0.021)	(0.015)
Share of Education Enrollment	0.002	−0.000	0.004
Share of Education Enrollment	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.003)
Year Effects	Yes	Yes	Yes
Individual Effects	Yes	Yes	Yes
N	2555	2555	2555

Note: The numbers in parentheses are standard errors. Significant levels are denoted as ^*p < 0.1, ^**p < 0.05, ^***p < 0.01. Control variables include GDP per capita, government revenue per capita, government expenditure per capita, the output in the services industry as a share of GDP, the number of beds in healthcare institutions in population (10,000), and the share of education enrollment in the regional permanent population

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