Table 9 Effect of the HMS on the equalization between cities (economic imbalance vs. economic balance).

From: The impact of the hierarchical medical system on medical resource allocation in China

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Bed_bc

Doc_bc

Unbalanced

Balanced

Unbalanced

Balanced

HMS

− 0.0130***

− 0.0035

− 0.0314**

− 0.0003

(0.0037)

(0.0027)

(0.0133)

(0.0038)

Control variables

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Year FE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Province FE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Observations

110

120

110

120

R2

0.492

0.236

0.358

0.146

  1. Cluster robust standard error in parenthesis. The significance levels of 1%, 5%, and 10% are denoted by ***, **, and *, respectively. All regressions control for year FE, province FE and province-by-year covariates. The Chow test statistics between the high and low supply groups of Bed_bc and Doc_bc are significant at the 10% significance level, which indicates that there are significant differences in the coefficients between the groups.
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