plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … rankings, sex, years of experience, and patient volume. The main finding is that when heart failure patients enter the hospital … attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting …

. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

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

capital consists of the underlying human capital (productivity) of those who become physicians and the job …-specific investments (physician training) added to this underlying capital. The value of physicians' underlying human capital is estimated …

induced demand (PID). Using rich microdata on childbirth, we compare the treatment of physicians when they are patients with … obstetricians. Financial incentives have a large effect on C-section probabilities for non-physicians, but physician-patients are … that of comparable non-physicians. We exploit a unique institutional feature of California to determine how inducement …

We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …

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 …A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians …

health care service efficacy--i.e., physicians as patients--with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various … information and medical knowledge among patients, an enormous number of health policies are focused on patient education. In this … campaigns. To do so, we compare the care received by a group of patients that should have the best possible information on …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their … health care utilization by focusing on Medicare patients affected by PCP relocations or retirements, which we refer to as … "exits." Observing where patients receive care after these exits, we estimate event studies to compare patients who switch to …