Table A3.

Effect of a 1%-point change in unemployment on nurse staffing minutes per resident day, using alternative specifications to control for time, 2005–12

	County-specific trends		State-specific trends	State-time dummies
	California Nursing Homes	National Nursing Homes	National Nursing Homes	National Nursing Homes
RNs	−0.284	−0.077	−0.129c	−0.125
	(0.313)	(0.064)	(0.069)	(0.085)
LPNs	−0.269	−0.014	0.066	0.075
	(0.377)	(0.077)	(0.081)	(0.104)
Aides	−1.043	0.021	−0.079	−0.270
	(0.661)	(0.145)	(0.151)	(0.194)
Total	−1.596c	−0.071	−0.142	−0.320
	(0.815)	(0.189)	(0.200)	(0.259)
RN/Total	0.0003	−0.0003	−0.0004	<0.0001
	(0.001)	(0.0002)	(0.0002)	(0.0003)
No. nursing homes	1,044	7,637	7,637	7,637
No. observations	8,086	95,068	95,068	95,068

All of the models include nursing home fixed effects. Robust standard errors in parentheses.

^ap < 0.01,

^bp < 0.05,

^cp < 0.10.