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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Econ. 2019 Jan 29;28(4):517–528. doi: 10.1002/hec.3860

Appendix A6.

Results from the sensitivity analysis with clustering by county

Instrumental Variables (IV) analysis
Outcome Estimate (Robust Standard Error)
Utilization
Log(Frequency of chemotherapy drug claims) −0.07(0.03)*
Log(Frequency of chemotherapy administration claims) −0.06(0.02)**
Spending ($)
Log(Chemotherapy drug spending) 0.18(0.05)***
Log(Chemotherapy administration spending) 0.08(0.04)**
Treatment mix
Log(Chemotherapy drug spending per claim) 0.25(0.04)***
First-Stage Statistics
Estimate on instrument (Robust Standard Error) 0.71(0.01)***
F-Statistic 5,442.43
   N 81,899

Notes: Oncologist fixed effects are included in all models. Covariates controlled for in all models are year dummies, patient demographic characteristics, chronic condition indicators, cancer type, metastasis indicator, and ZIP-level socio-economic variables; Spending measures are adjusted to 2013 dollars;

*

p < 0.10,

**

p < 0.05,

***

p < 0.01.