The effect of health insurance reimbursement rates on middle-aged and elderly people’s hospital choices: evidence from China

Table 10 Results of mechanism analysis

Variables	Hospital	Intermediary	Hospital
Variables	(1)	(2)	(3)
Rate	0.3331*** (0.0217)	0.1774*** (0.0236)	0.3238*** (0.0218)
Checkup			0.2802*** (0.0431)
Age	0.0062** (0.0025)	0.0296*** (0.0027)	0.0042* (0.0025)
Male	0.1196*** (0.0456)	-0.1444*** (0.0484)	0.1286*** (0.0457)
Education	0.0460*** (0.0061)	0.0495*** (0.0064)	0.0431*** (0.0062)
Urban	0.4945*** (0.0477)	0.3288*** (0.0505)	0.4745*** (0.0479)
Health	0.0781*** (0.0237)	0.0303 (0.0246)	0.0757*** (0.0237)
Disease	0.0584 (0.0497)	0.1505*** (0.0517)	0.0494 (0.0497)
Income	0.0193** (0.0083)	0.0534*** (0.0089)	0.0162* (0.0084)
Living	0.1750*** (0.0425)	0.0337 (0.0449)	0.1723*** (0.0425)
Province	Yes	Yes	Yes
Year	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	9344	9344	9344

1) Heteroskedasticity-Robust Standard Errors are reported in parentheses; 2) ***, **, * refer to 1%, 5%, and 10% statistical significance levels, respectively

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