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Table 2 OLS regressions of the willingness to take risks on socio-economics variables

From: Comparing GPs’ risk attitudes for their own health and for their patients’ : a troubling discrepancy?

 

Willingness to take risks

Variables

General

Financial matters

Patient’s health

Physician’s health

GP’s Characteristics

    

Constant

4.602c

3.670c

3.189c

4.470c

 

(0.204)

(0.212)

(0.206)

(0.215)

Gender

    

Male

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Female

-0.345b

-0.330b

-0.252a

0.105

 

(0.139)

(0.144)

(0.140)

(0.147)

Age

    

<49

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

49-56

0.189

-0.083

0.035

-0.008

 

(0.140)

(0.145)

(0.141)

(0.148)

>56

0.368b

-0.067

0.401a

0.175

 

(0.156)

(0.162)

(0.157)

(0.165)

Volume of activity

    

<2849

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

2849-5494

0.064

0.117

0.179

0.350b

 

(0.150)

(0.156)

(0.152)

(0.159)

>5494

0.274

0.370b

0.332a

0.722c

 

(0.173)

(0.180)

(0.174)

(0.183)

Location

    

Rural

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Peri-urban

-0.044

-0.040

-0.198

0.349a

 

(0.180)

(0.187)

(0.182)

(0.191)

Urban

0.006

0.163

-0.135

0.246

 

(0.146)

(0.152)

(0.148)

(0.155)

Observations (N)

1519

1507

1509

1513

  1. c, b and a represents significance at a 1‰, 1% and 5% level respectively