.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and …

compliance with patient safety measures in both public and private facilities (more so in the latter) and reallocated patients …

the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing … and quasi-experimental variation in the patient probability of being treated by physicians versus NPs in the emergency … department, we find that, compared to physicians, NPs significantly increase resource utilization but achieve worse patient …

patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in … within-area matching. We find that physicians vary greatly in the intensity with which they treat otherwise similar patients …We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that …

Can information about the value of diagnostic tests improve provider practice and help patients recognize higher … quality of care? In a randomized experiment at public clinics in Mali, health providers and patients received tailored …. Nonetheless, patients were significantly less satisfied with the care they received, driven by those whose prior beliefs did not …

context of Norway's system for allocating patients to general practitioners (GPs). We provide direct evidence of misallocation … under the current system--patients sitting on waitlists for each others' GPs, but who cannot trade--and analyze an …--with especially large benefits for female patients and recent movers--patients endowed with undesirable GPs would be harmed …