The effect of the health poverty alleviation project on financial risk protection for rural residents: evidence from Chishui City, China

Table 6 Effects of health poverty alleviation calculated by different matching strategies

Variables	OOP payments			Occurrence of catastrophic health expenditure			Occurrence of impoverishing health spending
Variables	1:4 nearest	Radius	Kernel	1:4 nearest	Radius	Kernel	1:4 nearest	Radius	Kernel
Post×Treatment	−0.229***	−0.099***	− 0.096***	−0.076***	− 0.073***	−0.072***	− 0.116***	−0.115***	− 0.114***
Post×Treatment	(0.030)	(0.028)	(0.028)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)
Post	0.022	−0.084***	−0.082***	−0.017***	− 0.019***	−0.019***	− 0.008***	−0.008***	− 0.008***
Post	(0.015)	(0.011)	(0.011)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Treatment	0.128***	0.031	0.034	0.066***	0.063***	0.064***	0.120***	0.121***	0.121***
Treatment	(0.021)	(0.020)	(0.020)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)
Control variables	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R ²	0.663	0.655	0.653	0.379	0.370	0.369	0.207	0.189	0.188
Observations	136,544	239,904	239,912	136,544	239,904	239,912	136,544	239,904	239,912

Notes: (1) *** denotes p < 0.01, ** denotes p < 0.05
(2) Robust standard errors in parentheses
(3) The control variables include residential areas, household size, numbers of elderly members, males and children per household, number of diseases in each ICD-10-CM chapter per household, and annual inpatient and outpatient visits in each types of institutions per household
(4) The estimates of occurrence of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishing health spending are marginal effects

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