Table 6.

Fixed effects regressions of province-level characteristics with health and health inequality

	I(2)		Health		C(2)
Variable	Coef.	Sig.	Coef.	Sig.	Coef.	Sig.
Age14	−1.974	†	1.940		−0.505
Primary school enrollments	−0.0001		−0.0001		−0.0003
Middle school enrollments	−0.0004	*	0.0003		−0.0002
Urbanization rate	−2.729	***	2.735	***	0.609
LnGDP	−0.236	*	0.261	*	−0.365	†
Engel Coefficient	0.838		−0.465		−2.006	†
Unemployment rate	0.458		0.027		−1.375
Health expenditure	−0.0021	***	0.0017	***	0.0016	**
Health Institutions Density	0.005		0.0007		−0.013	*
Hospital beds	0.026		−0.044		0.057
Constant	3.567	**	3.547	*	3.174
R2	0.9505		0.9488		0.4435
Hausman-test	chi2(7) =27.96	***	chi2(7) =26.52	***	chi2(7) =28.97	***

Note: Authors’ calculations from the CHNS data (1989, 19991, 1993, 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2009).

†P < 0.1, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.