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Table 3 The impact of NRCMS reimbursement on poverty

From: The impact of health insurance on poverty among rural older adults: an evidence from nine counties of western China

 

Poverty or not

Depth of poverty

Intensity of poverty

Catastrophic health expenditure or not

0.1734*** (0.1455)

0.2450*** (0.0644)

0.1743*** (0.0461)

Reimbursement expense ratio

−0.0115 (0.0370)

− 0.0161 (0.0171)

− 0.0129 (0.0122)

Martial status

0.0164 (0.1582)

0.0129 (0.0680)

0.0092 (0.0485)

Number of children

0.0286* (0.0482)

0.0269 (0.0207)

0.0179 (0.0148)

Relationship with children

−0.0495* (0.0811)

− 0.0513 (0.0364)

− 0.0307 (0.0260)

Financial support from children

−0.0606*** (0.0433)

− 0.0932*** (0.0212)

−0.0702*** (0.0153)

Frequency of face-to-face interaction with children

−0.0651*** (0.0674)

−0.0945***(0.0285)

− 0.0649*** (0.0203)

Frequency of interaction by telephone with children

0.0578** (0.0831)

0.0841*** (0.0355)

0.0579** (0.0254)

Social involvement

0.0183 (0.0702)

0.0279 (0.0348)

0.0224 (0.0249)

Economic involvement

0.0081 (0.1174)

0.0172 (0.0568)

0.0117 (0.0406)

Gender

−0.0317 (0.1370)

−0.0271 (0.0631)

− 0.0162 (0.0451)

Age

0.0021 (0.0112)

0.0049 (0.0048)

0.0039 (0.0034)

Years for education

−0.0038 (0.0202)

−0.0036 (0.0095)

− 0.0024 (0.0068)

Observations

520

520

520

Pseudo R2

0.2072

0.2402

0.3150

  1. Note: coefficients show marginal effects based on mean; numbers in bracket are consistent standard errors. ***, **, * respectively means the significance level of 0.01, 0.05 and 0.1