The multi-tiered medical education system and its influence on the health care market—China’s Flexner Report

Table 3 Regression analysis of the physician’s choice on the practice location between urban and rural areas

Dependent variable	Logit model: urban (= 1) vs. rural (= 0)
Dependent variable	(1) Odds ratio	(2) Odds ratio
Higher education
College diploma (dummy)	2.748*** [2.581, 2.926]	2.699*** [2.516, 2.895]
Bachelor degree or above (dummy)	34.480*** [31.665, 37.546]	19.591*** [17.809, 21.552]
Age	1.043*** [1.040, 1.047]	1.040*** [1.037, 1.043]
Male	0.435*** [0.408, 0.464]	0.474*** [0.441, 0.509]
Fixed effects		County
Number of observations	36 674	36 674
Log-likelihood function	− 1.59e+04	− 1.34e+04
Chi squared	10 950.468***	3 824.568***
Pseudo R-squared	0.257	0.356
BIC	31 759.125	26 834.060

Source: 2009 Fujian province database is a cross-sectional database that collected basic characteristics of human resources for health in all of the health institutes
Exponentiated coefficients are presented in the table; confidence intervals in parentheses
*** denote statistical significance at the 1% levels

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