Professional, personal and residential determinants of the practice location of self-employed GPs: evidence from France (2022)

Johanna Dufau
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Johanna Dufau: BSE - Bordeaux sciences économiques - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: General Practitioners (GPs) are concentrated in urban areas, leaving rural areas underserved. There is a substantial body of literature on personal (age, gender, family situation, rural background) and territorial GPs' location factors (quality of life, access to services). However, these determinants, particularly those related to the residential attractiveness, are established while it is slightly assumed that GPs work in their municipality of residence. We relax this assumption to examine the influence of personal, professional and residential GPs' location factors in France. Using a conditional logit model, we estimate the probability that a GP practices in an urban-rural territory as defined by the INSEE density grid . The results show the importance of distinguishing residential and professional factors. GPs do not work in the same types of municipalities depending on whether they practice in or near to their municipality of residence. The characteristics of their place of residence indirectly affect professional location. Our results also show a significant influence of personal and professional factors, in line with existing literature.

Keywords: Residential factors; Logit; Location; General Practitioners; Determinants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-06-17
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Published in 74th Congress of the French Economic Association, Jun 2026, Nantes, France

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