induced demand (PID). Using rich microdata on childbirth, we compare the treatment of physicians when they are patients with … that of comparable non-physicians. We exploit a unique institutional feature of California to determine how inducement … varies with obstetricians' financial incentives. Consistent with PID, physicians are almost 10 percent less likely to receive …

Treatment intensity varies remarkably across physicians, yet the key drivers are not well understood. Meanwhile, the … organization of healthcare is undergoing a secular transformation as physicians increasingly work in groups. This paper tests … whether physicians' group affiliation matters for practice styles and patient health. Using Medicare inpatient claims data, we …

A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians … styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of … statin users in Denmark and matching patients to their primary care physicians, we show that the physician's ability to …

health care service efficacy--i.e., physicians as patients--with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various … steps to account for unobservable differences between the two groups. Our results suggest that physicians do only slightly … better in adhering to both low- and high-value care guidelines than non-physicians - but not by much and not always …

financial incentives for physicians drive access to care and have important implications for patient health …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their …

attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting … plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … the emergency department. One innovation is the construction of proxy measures for the types of physicians available using …