Preferences of physicians for public and private sector work

Table 5 Association of life/career cycle factors with the marginal utility of private sector work

	Males		Females
	coef	se	coef	se
Aged 36–40	− 0.049	0.142	− 0.024	0.129
Aged 41–45	− 0.032	0.138	− 0.092	0.129
Aged 46–50	0.058	0.136	− 0.007	0.130
Aged 51–55	− 0.012	0.136	0.130	0.134
Aged 56–60	0.078	0.140	0.015	0.155
Aged 61–65	0.122	0.142	0.466**	0.197
Aged 65–70	0.257*	0.156	0.395	0.294
Aged 71–75	− 0.128	0.186	0.606	0.465
Aged 75–89	− 0.073	0.230	0.557	0.644
Has dependent children	0.064	0.057	0.163**	0.070
Australian medical school graduate	− 0.084	0.055	0.028	0.083
_cons	0.021	0.138	− 0.219	0.138
N	2237		870
Adjusted R²	0.002		0.008

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