Does Migrant Status and Household Registration Matter? Examining the Effects of City Size on Self-Rated Health
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methodology and Data
2.1. Data and Data Sources
2.1.1. Dependent Variables
2.1.2. Key Variables
2.1.3. Control Variables
2.2. Methods
2.3. Statistical Analysis
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. The Proportional Distribution of SRH
3.2. Factors Influencing SRH Status
4. Conclusions and Policy Implications
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | Symbol | Expected Direction | Min. | Max. | Mean | Standard Deviation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
City size (10,000 people) | CS | + | 3.8 | 678.0 | 194.4 | 186.3 |
Square of city size | SCS | − | 14.4 | 459,684.0 | 72,438.2 | 129,540.2 |
Income (Yuan) | IN | + | 200.0 | 800,000.0 | 37,686.2 | 51,489.3 |
Population density (People/km2) | PD | + | 25.3 | 1440.0 | 497.0 | 327.7 |
Per capita GDP(Yuan) | PCGDP | + | 10,981 | 132,081 | 57,249.1 | 28,252.0 |
Per capita green area (m2) | PCGA | + | 2 | 130 | 11.48 | 7.8 |
Hospital beds (per 10,000 people) | HB | + | 9 | 697 | 74.61 | 29.3 |
Variable | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | Model 5 | Model 6 | Model 7 | Model 8 | Model 9 | Model 10 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CS | 0.862 *** | 0.985 *** | 0.708 *** | 0.880 *** | 0.862 *** | 0.087 *** | 0.796 *** | 0.770 *** | 0.883 *** | 0.839 *** |
SCS | −0.059 *** | −0.068 *** | −0.050 *** | −0.059 *** | −0.059 *** | −0.060 *** | −0.055 *** | −0.54 *** | −0.060 *** | −0.058 *** |
MS | −0.114 ** | 2.836 | −0.116 *** | −0.115 ** | 0.756 | |||||
HR | −0.236 *** | −0.350 | −0.203 *** | −0.234 *** | 0.556 | |||||
IN | 0.066 *** | 0.068 *** | 0.060 *** | 0.068 *** | 0.066 *** | 0.064 *** | 0.065 *** | 0.060 *** | 0.065 *** | 0.064 *** |
PD | 0.063 ** | 0.038 | ||||||||
PCGDP | −0.031 | −0.022 | ||||||||
CS × MS | −0.882 * | |||||||||
SCS × MS | 0.064 * | |||||||||
CS × HR | −0.110 ** | |||||||||
SCS × HR | 0.019 | |||||||||
Individual heterogeneity | × | × | × | × | √ | × | × | × | × | √ |
Constant term | −2.512 ** | −2.854 ** | −2.322 ** | −2.212 * | −2.621 ** | −2.524 ** | −2.260 | −2.423 ** | −2.312 * | −2.574 ** |
Samples | 1349 | 1349 | 1349 | 1349 | 1349 | 1349 | 1349 | 1349 | 1349 | 1349 |
R2 | 0.324 | 0.325 | 0.327 | 0.324 | 0.326 | 0.328 | 0.329 | 0.329 | 0.328 | 0.328 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleZhou, Chunshan, Jing Chen, and Shaojian Wang. 2018. "Does Migrant Status and Household Registration Matter? Examining the Effects of City Size on Self-Rated Health" Sustainability 10, no. 7: 2204. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072204