Research Article

Empirical Analysis of Beneficial Equality of the Basic Medical Insurance for Migrants in China

Table 3

Factors of the medical compensation level and being hospitalized accessibility.

VariableHeckman modelPossibility of hospitalization
First step (1)Second step (2)

Male
 Male = 1−0.4014 (0.0177)−0.3588 (0.0226)−0.4048 (0.0178)
Age/10−0.6179 (0.0602)−0.5530 (0.0700)−0.6160 (0.0603)
Age square/1008.7709 (0.9432)7.9400 (1.0908)8.7391 (0.9442)
Education
 Junior high school−0.0509 (0.0277)−0.0400 (0.0310)−0.0541 (0.0277)
 Senior high school0.0880 (0.0319)0.1135 (0.0355)0.0805 (0.0321)
 Specialist college0.3169 (0.0371)0.3434 (0.0414)0.3124 (0.0384)
 College or above0.4411 (0.0427)0.5347 (0.0468)0.4433 (0.0453)
Marriage status
 First married or remarried0.8634 (0.0402)0.7929 (0.0494)0.8623 (0.0402)
 Divorced or widowed0.6423 (0.0766)0.5958 (0.0873)0.6500 (0.0763)
Working status
 Employee−0.0039 (0.0645)0.0240 (0.0713)−0.0156 (0.0642)
 Employed−0.0896 (0.0709)−0.1655 (0.0785)−0.0996 (0.0706)
 Self-employed−0.0213 (0.0657)−0.0761 (0.0726)−0.0242 (0.0654)
Income
 Lowest income−0.0662 (0.0285)−0.1106 (0.0317)−0.0759 (0.0286)
 Lower income−0.1372 (0.0294)-0.1402 (0.0330)−0.1402 (0.0294)
 Middle income−0.1378 (0.0261)−0.1347 (0.0291)−0.1402 (0.0261)
 Higher income−0.1319 (0.0262)−0.1604 (0.0292)−0.1385 (0.0263)
Hukou
 Nonrural−0.0319 (0.0141)−0.0208 (0.0264)
Constant−1.7123−1.5294−1.6919
(0.1105)(0.1335)(0.1104)
Year dummiesYesYesYes
City dummiesYesYesYes
Wald test (rho = 0) chi2 (1):2143.94
Observations1519992198154197

Standard errors are in parentheses; , , and .