Analysis of Economic Effect and Mechanism of Basic Medical Insurance for Urban Employees in China

Table 5

Regression results of fixed effect model.

Variable	Logarithm of total medical expenses		Logarithm of self-paid medical expenses
	Coefficient	Standard error	Coefficient	Standard error
Interaction (treat × time)	1.031	0.5557	0.609	0.5274
Treatment effect (treat)	−0.504	0.392	−0.544	0.3721
Time effect (time)	0.224	0.3448	0.206	0.3273
Provinces	Control		Control
Sample size	213		213

^∗Statistical significance at the 10% level. Control variables include age, square of age, gender, nationality, marital status, education level, occupation, permanent address, income, previous medical history, smoking, and drinking.