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. 2022 Aug 13;36(2):847–883. doi: 10.1007/s00148-022-00916-y

Table 6.

Estimation of the effects of laissez-faire policies (λ) on number of deaths in US nursing homes

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
λ 0.713∗∗ 1.063∗∗∗ 2.127∗∗∗ –0.105 1.573∗∗
(2.04) (3.19) (3.25) (–0.21) (2.12)
Eig_Cent 1.006∗∗∗ 1.482∗∗∗ 1.026∗∗∗ 1.011∗∗∗ 1.533∗∗∗
(3.27) (3.98) (3.35) (3.29) (4.11)
County_ssa –0.000780 –0.000824 –0.000521 –0.000793 –0.000584
(-1.09) (–1.15) (–0.72) (–1.11) (–0.81)
D_Profit 0.266∗∗ 0.268∗∗ 0.269∗∗ 0.101 0.0836
(2.28) (2.29) (2.30) (0.73) (0.60)
λ × Eig_Cent –3.944∗∗ –4.157∗∗
(–1.97) (–2.08)
λ × County_ssa –0.00446∗∗ –0.00445∗∗
(–2.47) (–2.48)
λ × D_Profit 1.231∗∗ 1.387∗∗
(1.97) (2.20)
Overall_Rating –0.207∗∗∗ –0.207∗∗∗ –0.207∗∗∗ –0.210∗∗∗ –0.210∗∗∗
(–5.07) (–5.07) (–5.06) (–5.13) (–5.12)
County FE Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Observations 6478 6478 6478 6478 6478
R 2 0.072 0.073 0.073 0.073 0.074

Standard errors are robust to heteroscedasticity of unknown form; t statistics in parentheses. p < 0.1; ∗∗ p < 0.05; ∗∗∗ p < 0.01. In Table G4 in Online Appendix G, we show that our main empirical results in Table 6 are robust when replacing eigenvector centrality by the degree centrality