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Table 3 Determinants of number of Fresh Cycles undertaken

From: A reduction in public funding for fertility treatment - an econometric analysis of access to treatment and savings to government

 

Base model and lag

With anticipatory behaviour and lag

    

all age

   

all age

Variable

Age ≤ 33

34 ≤ Age ≥ 39

Age ≥ 40

groups

Age ≤ 33

34 ≤ Age ≥ 39

Age ≥ 40

groups

EMSNCap effect

-305.83*

-429.52***

-497.31***

-307.04***

-183.17*

-275.63***

-436.91***

-195.24***

143.84

59.82

56.09

72.58

80.23

40.70

63.83

48.20

Lag of D. Variable

0.88***

0.32**

-0.07

0.70***

0.95***

0.56***

0.001

0.82***

0.13

0.10

0.10

0.11

0.06

0.07

0.12

0.06

Season 1 (base)

        

Season 2

335.00**

132.34**

-21.77

123.40**

230.57***

81.25**

-45.02

48.77

94.08

38.29

34.23

45.64

54.22

28.25

36.58

35.29

Season 3

345.06**

158.65***

-76.69*

117.40*

279.29***

112.51***

-95.47**

66.87

96.6512

34.5121

31.1946

47.48

62.4833

25.8843

33.7326

38.5072

Season 4

62.98

-18.28

-236.29***

-79.41

-42.13

-108.45***

-262.41***

-159.02***

90.82

38.17

33.58

42.29

47.57

27.11

35.10

31.69

Time Trend

26.38*

35.28***

51.50***

25.45***

14.03

20.94**

45.57***

14.29**

11.98

4.10

5.70

6.30

7.77

3.61

6.59

4.32

Constant

-178.31***

576.37***

963.39***

183.49

-122.03

416.99***

934.94***

168.30*

126.19

107.59

95.43

110.00

103.93

71.97

100.54

75.76

N

32

48

32

112

32

48

32

112

df

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

R squared

0.85

0.81

0.89

0.71

0.94

0.88

0.89

0.81

  1. OLS Regression method is used. Estimated coefficients and standard errors are presented. df denotes the degrees of freedom. * Significance at 10%, ** Significance at 5%, *** Significance at 1%. Each column reports a separate model specification.