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. 2018 Apr 12;18:283. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3044-7

Table 2.

OLS regressions of the willingness to take risks on socio-economics variables

	Willingness to take risks
Variables	General	Financial matters	Patient’s health	Physician’s health
GP’s Characteristics
Constant	4.602^c	3.670^c	3.189^c	4.470^c
	(0.204)	(0.212)	(0.206)	(0.215)
Gender
Male	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Female	-0.345^b	-0.330^b	-0.252^a	0.105
	(0.139)	(0.144)	(0.140)	(0.147)
Age
<49	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
49-56	0.189	-0.083	0.035	-0.008
	(0.140)	(0.145)	(0.141)	(0.148)
>56	0.368^b	-0.067	0.401^a	0.175
	(0.156)	(0.162)	(0.157)	(0.165)
Volume of activity
<2849	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
2849-5494	0.064	0.117	0.179	0.350^b
	(0.150)	(0.156)	(0.152)	(0.159)
>5494	0.274	0.370^b	0.332^a	0.722^c
	(0.173)	(0.180)	(0.174)	(0.183)
Location
Rural	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Peri-urban	-0.044	-0.040	-0.198	0.349^a
	(0.180)	(0.187)	(0.182)	(0.191)
Urban	0.006	0.163	-0.135	0.246
	(0.146)	(0.152)	(0.148)	(0.155)
Observations (N)	1519	1507	1509	1513

^c, ^b and ^a represents significance at a 1‰, 1% and 5% level respectively