Godager, Geir; Wiesen, Daniel - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1105-1116
This paper investigates physician altruism toward patients’ health benefit using behavioral data from Hennig-Schmidt et … on the choice of medical treatment. We estimate physician altruism, the weight individuals attach to patients’ health … evidence for physician altruism. We find, however, substantial variation in the degree of physician altruism. We also discuss …