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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

Table 7.

Treatment Effects Separately for “Friend” and “No Friend” Treatments

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

Friend No-
Frien
d
Friend No-
Friend
Friend No-
Friend
Friend No-
Friend
Friend No-
Frien
d
Frien
d
No-
Frien
d

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)
Role B 0.07 −0.07 −0.92 −2.01 −0.23 −0.25 −0.20 0.14 −0.10 0.10 −0.53 0.72
[0.07] [0.06] [8.13] [7.16] [0.16] [0.15] [0.17] [0.18] [0.09] [0.10] [0.48] [0.51]
Role A * Gift -
0.15**
-
0.12*
-
20.76**
-
20.72**
-
0.65**
-
0.57**
0.66** 0.48** 0.23** 0.18* 0.55 0.64
[0.05] [0.05] [6.03] [5.70] [0.13] [0.11] [0.15] [0.15] [0.07] [0.08] [0.40] [0.41]
Role B * Gift −0.10 0.00 −13.57* −3.54 −0.23 −0.03 0.52** -
0.42**
0.24** -
0.18*
0.41 −0.43
[0.05] [0.05] [5.83] [5.92] [0.12] [0.11] [0.14] [0.13] [0.08] [0.08] [0.36] [0.41]
Constant 0.51 0.50 84.47* 79.85** 2.51** 2.35** 4.44** 4.22** 0.59 0.55 4.22* 2.72
[0.32] [0.27] [38.60] [22.44] [0.52] [0.48] [0.72] [0.73] [0.37] [0.32] [1.86] [1.63]
β3-β1 −0.17 0.07 −12.65 −1.53 0.00 0.22 0.72** −0.56* 0.34* −0.28 0.94 −1.15
F Test β3–β1=0 2.69 0.53 1.19 0.02 0.00 1.07 7.54 4.45 5.84 3.53 1.74 2.29
P-value 0.10 0.47 0.28 0.89 0.98 0.30 0.01 0.04 0.02 0.06 0.19 0.13
Observations 320 320 320 320 320 320 320 320 320 320 320 320
R-squared 0.73 0.79 0.58 0.58 0.49 0.60 0.39 0.43 0.40 0.39 0.37 0.35

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.