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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Public Econ. 2013 Nov 1;107:19–30. doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2013.08.003

Appendix Table 2.

Treatment Effects Separately by Doctor Age

Antibiotic
prescription
Total drug
expenditure in
RMB
Number of
drugs
prescribed
Treatment
Duration
(min)
Physician
responds
politely after
being
thanked
Questions
10-18

Docto
r
Young
Doctor
Old
Doctor
Young
Doctor
Old
Doctor
Young
Doctor
Old
Docto
r
Young
Docto
r Old
Docto
r
Young
Docto
r Old
Docto
r
Young
Docto
r Old

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)
Role B 0.05 −0.07 −2.46 −3.01 −0.20 −0.32* −0.16 −0.04 −0.09 0.01 −0.22 0.07
[0.07] [0.07] [8.50] [6.62] [0.17] [0.13] [0.20] [0.15] [0.10] [0.09] [0.56] [0.43]
Role A * Gift −0.10* -
0.19**
-
19.97**
-
18.18**
-
0.50**
-
0.63**
0.47** 0.57** 0.10 0.26** 0.62 0.57
[0.05] [0.05] [6.40] [5.55] [0.13] [0.12] [0.17] [0.13] [0.09] [0.07] [0.48] [0.35]
Role B * Gift −0.08 −0.02 −9.37 −2.61 −0.10 −0.04 −0.44* −0.07 −0.22 −0.04 −0.45 0.38
[0.06] [0.07] [8.68] [7.06] [0.17] [0.13] [0.21] [0.16] [0.12] [0.10] [0.65] [0.50]
Role B * Gift *
Friend
0.02 −0.05 −4.34 −11.28 −0.01 −0.21 0.79** 0.46* 0.44** 0.18 0.61 −0.50
[0.07] [0.08] [10.38] [8.60] [0.22] [0.17] [0.28] [0.20] [0.15] [0.12] [0.77] [0.60]
Constant 0.02 0.66* 50.40* 70.85** 1.89** 2.54** 5.20** 4.42** 1.09** 0.79* 4.17** 4.05*
[0.10] [0.26] [20.31] [19.44] [0.72] [0.48] [0.75] [0.64] [0.21] [0.33] [1.23] [1.78]
β3+β7 −0.07 −0.08 −13.71 −13.88* −0.11 −0.25 0.35 0.39* 0.21 0.14 0.16 −0.12
F Test β3+β7=0 0.92 1.50 2.51 4.12 0.31 3.36 2.30 5.82 3.57 2.55 0.07 0.07
P value 0.34 0.22 0.12 0.04 0.58 0.07 0.13 0.02 0.06 0.11 0.79 0.79
Observations 244 396 244 396 244 396 244 396 244 396 244 396
R-squared 0.84 0.68 0.61 0.57 0.59 0.52 0.50 0.39 0.48 0.37 0.44 0.32

Visit Order
Patient fixed effects
Physician fixed
effects

Note: Robust standard errors are in brackets with

**

, representing estimates significant at 1% and 5% level, respectively.

*

, representing estimates significant at 1% and 5% level, respectively.