Physicians, judges, teachers, and agents in many other settings differ systematically in the decisions they make when …

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 …

Physicians' advice to stop smoking has been found to increase smoking cessation rates in controlled clinical trials …. However, these finding may not be applicable under real world conditions. This paper investigates the impact of physicians … who do not receive advice. This result implies that physicians' advice is effective in curtailing smoking in real world …

expectations on their own ability, contemporaneous physician income, and the ex post income of physicians in their medical school …

theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do in fact induce physicians to deviate from a …

like market power. We study pharmaceutical firms' payments to physicians, leveraging instrumental variables based on …

. Despite our deliberately conservative estimation procedure, we find that about 2,300 physicians, or 3% of those with a … potential overbilling based on the hours worked implied by the service codes physicians submit to Medicare. Using the Medicare … and Medicaid Services (CMS), we first construct estimates for physicians' hours spent on Medicare Part B FFS beneficiaries …

Despite increasing calls for value-based payments, existing methodologies for determining physicians' "value added" to … substantially across physicians and was highly stable for individual physicians. Patients of physicians in the 75th versus 25th …