Hi All,

I am carrying out research for my bachelor thesis looking at the effect of gin consumption on health outcomes, using a regional-level panel data set across time. I am using two measures of health for robustness: ARD (alcohol related deaths) and BADSAH (bad self-assessed health).

Controls:

TEH - control for Total Expenditure of Healthcare (£ billion spent in the specific region on Healthcare)
GDHI - control for income (Gross disposable household income in the region - £)
dbbinge - control for binge drinking behaviour


I am unsure whether to use the logs of TEH and GDHI - when I do I get extremely different results (different direction of relationship and varying significance). Does it make a difference? I've carried out my whole study using not the logs and written it all up - and now am apprehensive I may have needed to log the variables.

Many thanks,
Carys Wright