populations, and incentives. Economic considerations that affect the quality of decision making include training, experience, peer … effects, financial incentives and time constraints. We also consider interventions aimed at improving decision making …

We ask how competition influences the prescribing practices of physicians. Law changes granting nurse practitioners … variation in competition. In response, we find that general practice physicians (GPs) significantly increase their prescribing …. Our findings are consistent with a simple model of physician behavior in which competition for patients leads physicians …

effectiveness of these incentives, however, depends both on physicians' price sensitivity and their knowledge of patient prices. We … information. Applying this model to diabetes care, we find that physicians lack detailed price information and are more price …-elastic than full-information models imply. We predict that providing physicians detailed information on prices at the point of …

: the number of physicians in the physician's group (if any); the physician's integration with or employment by a hospital … or hospital system; and the average age of the other physicians in the physician's group. We present three key findings …. First, all else held constant, group physicians prescribe far fewer opioids, and prescribe them more appropriately, than do …

Physicians commonly receive marketing-related transfers from drug firms. We examine the impact of these relationships … fading out within a year. A marketing payment also leads physicians to begin treating cancer patients with lower expected …

Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic … combination of administrative and survey data. We find that guaranteed incentives of $20 increase uptake by 13 percentage points … in the short run and 9 in the long run. Guaranteed incentives are more effective than lottery-based, prosocial, or …