Does patient behaviour drive physicians to practice defensive medicine? Evidence from a video experiment

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Table 7 Main results

	Dependent Variable: Defensive Treatment
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Critical Patient	0.111**	0.036	0.056	0.057
Critical Patient	(0.052)	(0.057)	(0.055)	(0.055)
Liability Risk		0.171***	0.128**	0.127**
Liability Risk		(0.062)	(0.057)	(0.057)
Female	-0.122*	-0.134**	-0.133*	-0.136**
Female	(0.070)	(0.067)	(0.067)	(0.067)
Working Experience > 20y	0.107*	0.090	0.097	0.097
Working Experience > 20y	(0.059)	(0.061)	(0.059)	(0.060)
Accountability	0.059	0.073	0.068	0.069
Accountability	(0.056)	(0.057)	(0.057)	(0.057)
Claim Experience	-0.023	-0.017	-0.026	-0.027
Claim Experience	(0.067)	(0.069)	(0.068)	(0.068)
Gynaecology		-0.053
Gynaecology		(0.110)
Defensive Person				0.017
Defensive Person				(0.057)
Observations	328	328	328	328
Case FE	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Order FE	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

The table reports OLS results. Heteroskedasticity robust standard errors in (parentheses) are clustered at the participant level. *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1

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