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Table 4 Regression analysis of the physician’s choice on the practice location between large and small hospitals

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

Dependent variable

Ordered probit model: hospital size

(1)

(2)

Higher education

 College diploma (dummy)

0.513*** (0.017)

0.559*** (0.022)

 Bachelor degree or above (dummy)

1.759*** (0.016)

1.717*** (0.027)

Age

0.018*** (0.001)

0.019*** (0.001)

Male

− 0.381*** (0.013)

− 0.406*** (0.022)

Cut1

Constant

0.590*** (0.029)

− 24.252 (596.049)

Cut2

Constant

1.860*** (0.030)

− 19.456 (596.048)

Cut3

Constant

3.012*** (0.032)

− 5.556 (576.072)

Fixed effects

 

COUNTY

Number of observations

36 674

36 674

Log-likelihood function

− 4.03e+04

− 1.25e+04

Chi squared

14 936.433***

70 457.985***

Pseudo R-squared

0.156

0.738

BIC

80 659.477

26 115.339

  1. 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
  2. *** denote statistical significance at the 1% levels. standard errors are reported in the parentheses
  3. cut1—this is the estimated cutpoint on the latent variable used to differentiate township-level hospital from county-level, city-level, and provincial-level hospitals when values of the predictor variables are evaluated at zero
  4. cut2—this is the estimated cutpoint on the latent variable used to differentiate township-level and county-level hospital from city-level and provincial-level hospitals when values of the predictor variables are evaluated at zero
  5. cut3—this is the estimated cutpoint on the latent variable used to differentiate township-level, county-level, and city-level hospitals from provincial level hospitals when values of the predictor variables are evaluated at zero