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Table 4 The effects of determinants on the per capita health expenditure in different regions

From: Determinants of China’s health expenditure growth: based on Baumol’s cost disease theory

 

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Variables

Eastern Region

Central Region

Western Region

dlnGDP

0.372 (0.377)

1.028** (0.475)

1.201*** (0.292)

BV

0.0173** (0.00693)

0.0384*** (0.0127)

0.0268*** (0.00678)

dlnPOP65

−0.0620 (0.0642)

− 0.0128 (0.109)

0.135 (0.0847)

dlnRD

0.292*** (0.0997)

−0.0956 (0.0963)

0.0867 (0.120)

dlnBED

0.00859 (0.0592)

0.181 (0.185)

−0.0275 (0.181)

dlnDOC

−0.0285 (0.0364)

0.0103 (0.116)

−0.0643 (0.104)

dlnOUTP

0.0173 (0.160)

0.437** (0.198)

−0.162 (0.285)

dlnINP

−0.0176 (0.140)

−0.259 (0.182)

− 0.173 (0.178)

Constant

0.0854*** (0.0287)

0.0288 (0.0401)

0.0432 (0.0281)

Observations

77

56

77

R-squared

0.299

0.267

0.253

Number of prov

11

8

11

  1. Note: Robust standard deviations in brackets, ***, ** and * indicate significant at the 1, 5 and 10% levels respectively