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Table 9 Explaining the extra ration r i -m i of recipients with positive payoffs (OLS with random effects)

From: Which patients do I treat? An experimental study with economists and physicians

Variables

Coefficient

Std. err.

Constant

10.99

18.61

OPMA

-233.52***

29.14

OPMA .NMA

-105.82***

23.24

NMA

-122.39***

23.40

NMA.RA

-102.11***

19.96

RA

-81.79***

20.38

Endowment

33.20***

9.62

Minimum need

-0.01

0.02

Productivity

60.18***

4.61

OPMA .productivity

53.82***

8.72

NMA .productivity

2.78

6.46

RA .productivity .minimum need

-0.08***

0.01

Number of observations = 2,973 Number of Groups = 58

R2: within = 0.169 R2: between = 0.279 R2: overall = 0.175

  1. OPMA: own payoff-maximizing allocator, NMA: number maximizing allocator, RA: Rawlsian allocator
  2. ***, (**), [*] significant at the 99% (95%) [90%] confidence level, resp.