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Health is an inevitable requirement for all-around development and an important symbol of the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people. Health improvement is not only conducive to accumulating human capital and improving the efficiency of economic growth but also an important social goal to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects. Health problems often accompany the growth of age, and the increasing degree of aging in China poses a challenge to the health protection of middle-aged and elderly people.
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There are three situations: when university group = 1, postgraduate group = 0, junior high school and below = 0, the coefficient of university group reflects the marginal effect of individuals with college and university education; when graduate group = 1, university group = 0, Junior high school and below = 0, at this time the coefficient of the postgraduate group reflects the marginal effect of individuals with postgraduate education; when the university group = 0 and the postgraduate group = 0, the coefficients of different variables in the equation reflect the marginal effects of individuals with a junior high school education and below. Therefore, setting the two dummy variables of university and postgraduate can meet the empirical requirements (Wooldridge 2015).
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Pearson correlation coefficient (Pearson correlation coefficient) is a linear correlation coefficient used to reflect the statistic of the linear correlation between two variables. The correlation coefficient is denoted by r, where n is the sample size, which is the observed value and mean value of the two variables, respectively. The value of R is between −1 and +1. If r > 0, it indicates that the two variables are positively correlated, that is, the greater the value of one variable, the greater the value of the other variable; if r < 0, it indicates that the two variables are positively correlated. This variable is negatively correlated, that is, the larger the value of one variable, the smaller the value of the other variable. The larger the absolute value of r, the stronger the correlation. It should be noted that there is no causal relationship here.
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Sun, B., Wu, X., Li, X. (2023). Informal Institutions and Healthy Care for the Elderly: Research on the Health Promotion Function of Social Capital. In: Li, Y., Zhao, Q., Cheng, Z. (eds) China's Road and Aging Population . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8891-2_12
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