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

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Table 9 Robustness checks

	Dependent Variable: Defensive Treatment
	Drop 25% Fastest Respondents (1)	Drop 25% Slowest Respondents (2)	Probit Regression (3)
Critical Patient	0.075	0.013	0.207
Critical Patient	(0.059)	(0.073)	(0.190)
Liability Risk	0.163**	0.118	0.441**
Liability Risk	(0.061)	(0.076)	(0.200)
Female	-0.157**	-0.035	-0.509**
Female	(0.068)	(0.084)	(0.226)
Working Experience > 20y	0.094	0.068	0.327
Working Experience > 20y	(0.072)	(0.061)	(0.205)
Accountability	0.056	0.104	0.248
Accountability	(0.060)	(0.069)	(0.191)
Claim Experience	-0.036	0.004	-0.117
Claim Experience	(0.084)	(0.078)	(0.229)
Defensive Person	-0.014	-0.020	0.057
Defensive Person	(0.065)	(0.070)	(0.196)
Observations	245	243	328
Case FE	Yes	Yes	Yes
Order FE	Yes	Yes	Yes

The table reports OLS results (except for Column (3), Column (3) shows probit 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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