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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2018 Feb;55(1):361–386. doi: 10.1007/s13524-017-0645-4

Table 8.

Estimated impacts of Seguro Popular on health care use in the MHAS in urban areas for all men and women aged 50 without health insurance preprogram (2001): Difference-in-difference local linear matching 2001–2012 a

Seguro Popular vs. No Seguro
Popular in 2012
Seguro Popular vs. No Other Health Insurance
in 2012


Nonbeneficiary
Level 2012
Local
Linear
Nonbeneficiary
Level 2012
Local
Linear
Usage and Preventive Care
  Saw a doctor in past year 0.70 −0.007 (0.034) 0.56 0.101* (0.042)
  Saw a dentist in past year 0.28 −0.045 (0.027) 0.24 −0.033 (0.032)
  Hospitalized in past year 0.10 −0.030 (0.020) 0.07 0.009 (0.022)
  Diabetes test in past two years 0.74 −0.012 (0.033) 0.57 0.087 (0.044)
  Hypertension test in past two years 0.33 −0.005 (0.040) 0.22 0.101* (0.045)
  Gynecological exam in past two years 0.58 0.028 (0.048) 0.40 0.157* (0.068)
  Prostate test in past two years 0.74 0.016 (0.047) 0.60 0.131* (0.054)
Receiving Treatmentb
  (Conditional) probability of being in treatment for hypertension 0.85 −0.031 (0.065) 0.78 −0.020 (0.096)
  (Conditional) probability of following diet for diabetes 0.61 −0.063 (0.124) 0.53 −0.014 (0.269)
  (Conditional) probability of taking insulin for diabetes 0.15 −0.009 (0.071) 0.05 0.190* (0.077)

Note: Standard errors are shown in parentheses.

a

All estimates are difference-in-difference estimators using information from 2001 and 2012.

b

Conditional probability of treatment, conditional on reporting having disease.

p < .10;

*

p < .05;

**

p < .01;

***

p < .001