Table 2

The effects of More Doctors Programme (MDP) on the number of age-standardised ambulatory admissions (1000 people) and costs (1000 people, in BRL) for 1–4 years old, 5–19 years old, 20 and plus years old and all people, for the subsample of municipalities with priority

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)
	Admissions				Costs of admissions (BRL)
Dep. Var.	1–4 years old	5–19 years old	20 or plus years old	All people	1–4 years old	5–19 years old	20 or plus years old	All people
POSTXMDP	−2.661**	−0.520	−0.615	−0.762	−28.954	−105.208	−252.424	−285.537
	(1.356)	(0.431)	(0.583)	(0.544)	(288.051)	(73.739)	(269.963)	(228.113)
2014XMDP	−1.797**	−0.522	−0.372	−0.566	−491.580	−165.084	215.774	−247.331
	(0.898)	(0.360)	(0.505)	(0.458)	(319.745)	(119.707)	(334.820)	(212.964)
2015XMDP	−2.202**	−0.427	−0.333	−0.555	222.937	−27.532	−198.286	−130.759
	(1.091)	(0.392)	(0.592)	(0.528)	(292.739)	(102.114)	(349.043)	(233.198)
2016XMDP	−2.892	−0.510	−0.476	−0.662	21.298	−60.898	−427.934	−200.336
	(1.810)	(0.496)	(0.621)	(0.584)	(525.407)	(96.863)	(360.809)	(252.455)
2017XMDP	−2.136	−0.071	−0.894	−0.731	406.275	−33.283	−678.988*	−360.899
	(2.054)	(0.603)	(0.727)	(0.690)	(326.823)	(102.739)	(399.642)	(306.031)
Observations	16 879	16 879	16 879	16 879	16 879	16 879	16 879	16 879
R-squared	0.707	0.751	0.767	0.780	0.240	0.192	0.429	0.756
Mean Dep.Var.	23.55	8.679	16.82	14.97	1788	654.3	6726	7755
No. of clusters	1688	1688	1688	1688	1688	1688	1688	1688

The table presents estimates of the effects of MDP on the number of age-standardised ambulatory admissions and the costs (in BRL), by age group (1–4 years old, 5–19 years old, 20 and plus years old and all people). The number of admissions and costs are expressed per 1000 people. The estimates are from a difference-in-differences estimation where ‘POST’ takes value one if the year is after 2013 (2014–2017), and ‘MDP’ is an indicator for whether the municipality has at least an MDP doctor. The analysis is restricted to the sample of municipalities which were given priority in the implementation of MDP: (1) municipalities who have at least 20% of the population in extreme poverty, and (2) municipalities were among the 100 with more than 80 000 inhabitants, with the lowest level of per capita public revenue and high social vulnerability of inhabitants. Municipality and time fixed effects are included. SE are clustered at the municipality level. Significantly different than zero at 99 (***), 95 (**), 90 (*) per cent confidence.