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Do quality improvements in assisted reproduction technology increase patient numbers in a
managed competition setting?
Table 6.7: Competitive region regression results
1 Narrow 2 Broad 3 Travel time in definition definition mins
12
13
-13.206*** -10.767** -11.857*** Success rate in t-1 5.404 -8.344*
Success rate in t
Success rate in t-1 (zero travel time between 20.238*** competitors)
Success rate in t-2 1.015 2.769 2.321 Interaction with region 12.109** 12.851***
Interaction with reform 3.156 -4.133
Interaction with region and reform 16.952*** 13.769***
Effect after reform 1.769 Effect of each additional minute of travel time to -.4168*** the nearest competitor (before reform)
-.4439***
Effect of each additional minute of travel time to
the nearest competitor (after reform)
Demographics -4.89e-06 .0000174 2.78e-06 Time trend .0106 .00149 -.0085 Constant -11.278 2.115 25.069 N (i,t) 243 (13,19) 243 (13,19) 243 (13,19) R2 (within, between) (0.2493, 0.0308) (0.1470, 0.0031) (0.1775, 0.0107) *p<.10, **p<.05, ***P<.01
12 This includes clinics with a competitor within 15 mins: VU Amsterdam, AMC Amsterdam, LUMC Leiden and MCK Leiderdorp
13 This includes clinics with a competitor within 33 mins: UMC Utrecht, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Reinier de Graaf Voorburg, Elisabeth Tilburg, Catharina Eindhoven, VU Amsterdam, AMC Amsterdam, LUMC Leiden and MCK Leiderdorp
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