A discrete choice experiment studying students’ preferences for scholarships to private medical schools in Japan

Table 4 Estimation results of the DCE

	Whole		Non-applicants to private school		Applicants to private school
	(n = 347)		(n = 227)		(n = 120)
	Coefficient	p value	Coefficient	p value	Coefficient	p value
Average annual tuition	−0.011	0.000	−0.014	0.000	−0.006	0.000
Urban location	0.206	0.154	0.086	0.658	0.428	0.005
Impossibility of commuting from home	−0.243	0.099	−0.304	0.122	−0.185	0.230
Obligation for specific specialties	−0.489	0.000	−0.4	0.026	−0.724	0.000
Obligation for rural regions	0.212	0.192	0.322	0.131	0.01	0.958
Length of obligation	−0.215	0.000	−0.203	0.000	−0.276	0.000
Age	0.054	0.004	0.072	0.003	0.039	0.223
Female dummy	0.101	0.297	0.042	0.726	0.238	0.180
Physician’s child	−0.17	0.109	−0.381	0.018	0.043	0.784
Constant	1.59	0.000	1.538	0.004	1.667	0.013
Log likelihood	−1 535.99		−962.84		−531.06
McFadden’s R-squared	0.143		0.167		0.158
Number of observations	2 776		1 816		960

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