Table 3.
The additional impact on health care expenditure from supporting procedures
| Public health care expenditure in log | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| ER | BBR | FR | |||
| FR | 0.09 | −0.03* | −0.02 | −0.03** | −0.03* |
| (0.05) | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | (0.01) | |
| FR×FR legal basis Level 1 | −0.17*** | − 0.06*** | |||
| (0.04) | (0.02) | ||||
| Level 2 | 0.17 | 0.04* | |||
| (0.10) | (0.02) | ||||
| FR × budget ceiling | −0.05*** | ||||
| (0.01) | |||||
| FR × independent body setting | 0.01 | ||||
| (0.02) | |||||
| FR × independent monitoring | 0.06 | ||||
| (0.06) | |||||
| Country FE | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Year FE | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| N | 717 | 717 | 717 | 717 | 717 |
| adj. R2 | 0.997 | 0.997 | 0.997 | 0.997 | 0.997 |
Independent variable FR is presented in different forms. In columns 1 and 2, it is presented as ER and BBR, respectively, where legal basis level 1 indicates either a political commitment or coalition agreement, level 2 indicates either a statutory and constitutional level enforcement. In columns 3 to 5, it is presented as aggregate FR. Appendix 5 provides a full table, including all control variables. Standard errors are in parentheses
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001