As the instrument through which states regulate the professional conduct of medical practitioners, state medical boards play a critical role in addressing physician sexual misconduct. Sexual misconduct in the medical profession is particularly troubling given that physicians are often privy to...

Informed consent in German medical law has a long and controversial tradition. For more than 100 years, medical treatment – even where medically indicated and performed under medical standards – constitutes an act of personal injury and therefore requires the patient’s consent. The basis...

This article studies the impact of primary care providers (PCPs) exit from the local health care system on patients’ health care utilization. I compare patients with each other whose physicians have left the local health care system at different points in time due to retirement, relocation, or...

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health...

We study how patient-regarding altruism is formed by medical education, a so far under-researched question. We structurally estimate altruistic preferences using experimental data from a large sample of medical students (N=733) in Germany at different stages in their studies. The estimates...

COVID-19 has had a significant impact on independent physicians. Initially, in response to the pandemic, non-emergency medical appointments, including routine visits, non-emergency sick visits, and elective procedures were cancelled or replaced with virtual visits, when possible. Even as states...

This paper estimates the impact of gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from pharmaceutical firms on physicians’ prescription decisions and drug costs in the US. Using exhaustive micro data on prescriptions for anti-diabetic drugs from Medicare Part D, we find that payments cause physicians...

While the presence of disparities in healthcare is well documented, the mechanisms of such disparities are less understood, particularly in relation to mental health. This paper develops and estimates a structural model of diagnosis for the most prevalent child mental health condition, Attention...

There is a robust literature documenting the importance of physician practice style (e.g., the propensity to perform certain operations) in explaining outcomes related to patients' physical health. Yet little is known about the role of physicians in explaining patients' mental health outcomes....