What do Iranian physicians value most when choosing a specialty? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Table 4 Willingness to pay for an improvement in the attribute levels

Attributes^a	Willingness to pay^b	95% confidence interval
Attributes^a	Willingness to pay^b	Lower level	Upper level
Opportunity for procedural activity (ordinary)	1.5127	1.1821	1.8433
Opportunity for procedural activity (great)	2.7821	2.3815	3.1827
Work-family compatibility (relative)	1.0322	0.8595	1.2874
Work-family compatibility (high)	1.2162	0.9103	1.5220
Opportunity for academic careers (ordinary)	− 0.0755^c	− 0.4272	0.2762
Opportunity for academic careers (great)	2.1061	1.7222	2.4900
Job prestige (excellent)	2.2211	1.9733	2.4690
Job burnout (medium)	2.0356	1.6589	2.4123
Job burnout (low)	2.5900	2.2130	2.9669
Job burnout (very low)	3.5456	3.1566	3.9345
Emergency or on-call schedule (sometimes)	0.7074	0.3614	1.0534
Emergency or on-call schedule (seldom)	1.1582	0.8222	1.4942
Scope of practice (broad)	0.7965	0.5674	1.0256

Number of observations = 12,276; LR chi²(15) = 2304.89; Prob > chi² = 0.0000; Pseudo R² = 0.2709
^aBaseline levels: Monthly income (200,000,000 IRR), opportunity for procedural activity (undesirable), work-family compatibility (low), opportunity for academic careers (undesirable), job prestige (ordinary), job burnout (high), emergency or on-call schedule (often), scope of practice (narrow)
^bEstimated based on the expected monthly income divided by 100,000,000 IRR and considered as a continuous variable
^cNot significant at 0.05

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