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The Effect Of Health Insurance On Health Care Utilization: Evidence From Malaysia

Table 2:

Logit Poisson Zero truncated Poisson
coef. robust s.e coef. robust s.e coef. robust s.e
Age -0.121 0.016*** -0.105 0.016*** -0.017 0.032
Agesq 0.001 0.000*** 0.001 0.000*** 0.000 0.000
Male -0.053 0.106 -0.037 0.118 -0.223 0.253
Primary 0.348 0.187 0.204 0.225 -0.257 0.323
Secondary 0.315 0.203 0.054 0.236 -0.630 0.359
Tertiary 0.236 0.253 0.007 0.276 -0.539 0.483
Married 0.547 0.117*** 0.409 0.155*** -0.240 0.317
Size 0.057 0.015*** 0.061 0.014*** 0.034 0.022
Chronic 1.064 0.079*** 1.197 0.087*** 0.867 0.201***
Smoker -0.097 0.106 -0.108 0.117 0.080 0.250
Insurance 0.253 0.103** 0.151 0.118 -0.311 0.338
Income -0.037 0.015** -0.035 0.017** 0.001 0.031
Malay 0.118 0.085 0.118 0.112 -0.060 0.289
Distance -0.001 0.001 -0.001 0.001 0.000 0.001
Urban 0.016 0.082 0.029 0.092 0.069 0.198
Constant -1.468 0.363 -1.360 0.395 -0.057 0.835
Log-likelihood -2918.86 -3811.26 -603.17
AIC 5869.724 7654.521 1238.343
BIC 5990.725 7775.523 1313.116
n=14,223 n=14,223 n=791
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