Table 6.
Mechanisms: Total hospitalization expenses, medical insurance applicability and medical institution choice
| Variable | URBMI | NRCMI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total hospitalization expenses | Medical institution choice | Medical insurance applicability | Total hospitalization expenses | Medical institution choice | Medical insurance applicability | |
| Reference group: Poorest | ||||||
| 2nd | 0.118 | 0.312*** | 0.115*** | 0.0764 | 0.0272 | 0.063*** |
| (0.180) | (0.083) | (0.015) | (0.059) | (0.022) | (0.016) | |
| 3rd | 0.195 | 0.230*** | 0.112*** | 0.0583 | 0.0948*** | 0.081*** |
| (0.181) | (0.071) | (0.012) | (0.053) | (0.020) | (0.015) | |
| 4th | 0.486*** | 0.267*** | 0.227*** | 0.194*** | 0.182*** | 0.0718*** |
| (0.180) | (0.067) | (0.015) | (0.059) | (0.020) | (0.016) | |
| Richest | 0.495*** | 0.421*** | 0.399*** | 0.213*** | 0.359*** | 0.126*** |
| (0.181) | (0.068) | (0.012) | (0.071) | (0.023) | (0.016) | |
| Control variables | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Constant | 8.099*** | −0.112 | −0.335 | 8.181*** | −0.363*** | 0.407** |
| (0.509) | (0.157) | (0.530) | (0.193) | (0.057) | (0.185) | |
| Observations | 618 | 4910 | 618 | 4858 | 41,256 | 4858 |
Note: Control variables include respondents’ age, age squared, sex, years of schooling, marital status and family size; ***, **, and * indicate significance levels of 1, 5, and 10%, respectively