Table 3.

Exogenous Attrition Tests

Dep var: Hospital Stays	Average Partial Effects		Test of APEs Equality
Explanatory Variables	Selected Sample	Full Sample	Diff.	SE of Diff.	Wald t‐test	p‐value	95% CI
Health care use
Visit to GP	0.051***	0.057***	−0.006	0.007	−0.89	0.374	−0.020	0.008
Visit to SP	0.091***	0.092***	−0.002	0.004	−0.35	0.727	−0.010	0.007
Need for care
Frailty index [0;5]	0.020***	0.019***	0.001	0.002	0.58	0.563	−0.003	0.006
Poor SRH	0.041***	0.042***	−0.001	0.005	−0.19	0.852	−0.011	0.009
Multimorbidity	0.025***	0.025***	0.000	0.005	−0.06	0.954	−0.009	0.009
Limit. w/IADL 2+	0.016**	0.020**	−0.005	0.010	−0.45	0.653	−0.025	0.016
Limit. w/ADL 2+	0.006	0.009	−0.003	0.012	−0.26	0.799	−0.027	0.021
Depressive sympt.	0.012***	0.015***	−0.002	0.005	−0.44	0.657	−0.013	0.008
Resources
Make‐ends‐meet	−0.001	−0.002	0.001	0.002	0.40	0.691	−0.004	0.006
Joint model controls
Sample dummy	0.004
(+ Wave dummies)
(+ Mundlak device)
Joint test			−0.017	0.016	−1.08	0.280	−0.048	0.014
Obs.	94,769
Obs. by subsample	22,686	72,083

*p < .1; **p < .05; ***p < .01.