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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2019 May 24;66:208–221. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.05.008

Table 6.

Effect of SNF star rating (assumed continuous) on patient outcomes (binary).

Any acute hospitalization within 30 days Any hospitalization within 180 days Death within 30 days Death within 180 days Became long-stay nursing-home resident
OLS Without patient characteristics or any FE −0.00774***
(0.000299)		 −0.0119***
(0.000404)		 −0.00577***
(0.000196)		 −0.0152***
(0.000326)		 −0.0188***
(0.000368)
Without patient characteristics but with ZIP FE −0.00689***
(0.000319)		 −0.0107***
(0.000423)		 −0.00543***
(0.000217)		 −0.0145***
(0.000360)		 −0.0181***
(0.000367)
With patient characteristics and ZIP code FE −0.00291***
(0.00031)		 −0.00593***
(0.00041)		 −0.00179***
(0.00021)		 −0.00606***
(0.00031)		 −0.00957***
(0.00032)
With patient characteristics, SNF FE and ZIP code FE −0.00083
(0.000650)		 −0.00093
(0.000819)		 −6.81E-05
(0.000430)		 −0.00073
(0.000644)		 −0.00109*
(0.000585)
2SLS Without patient characteristics or any FE −0.0123***
(0.000946)
[40.47]*** 		−0.0182***
(0.00129)
[30.35]*** 		−0.00761***
(0.000581)
[9.14]** 		−0.0190***
(0.000976)
[12.06]*** 		−0.0166***
(0.00120)
[6.06]*
Without patient characteristics but with ZIP FE −0.00850***
(0.00276)
[0.168]		 −0.0106***
(0.00364)
[0.929]		 −0.00376**
(0.00191)
[0.485]		 −0.0124***
(0.00302)
[0.250]		 −0.0112***
(0.00275)
[7.85]**
With patient characteristics and ZIP code FE −0.00500
(0.00306)
[0.27]		 −0.00441
(0.00404)
[0.18]		 −0.00479**
(0.00205)
[2.52]		 −0.0120***
(0.00311)
[2.28]		 −0.00782***
(0.00296)
[0.626]
With patient characteristics, SNF FE and ZIP code FE −0.00604**
(0.00305)
[3.68]* 		−0.00578
(0.00405)
[1.91]		 −0.00497**
(0.00207)
[5.25]** 		−0.0120***
(0.00312)
[8.94]*** 		−0.00706**
(0.00286)
[5.71]**

Note: Robust standard errors clustering error are in parentheses. Each coefficient and associated standard errors is derived from a separate regression. Hausman test statistics are reported in square brackets.

***

p < 0.01.

**

p < 0.05.

*

p < 0.1.