This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood … endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … control function approach. Our results indicate that the marginal returns to physicians are highly nonlinear and decreasing …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …

there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients’ post-assignment mortality, in the …

combines elements of the literatures on economic geography, multinational firms, urban economics, and trade theory. A two …

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for …

examine whether information on the offered incentives improves reports about a known objective prior. We find that transparent … information on incentives gives rise to error rates in excess of 40 percent, and that only 15 percent of participants consistently … report the truth. False reports are conservative and appear to result from a biased perception of the BSR incentives. While …

This paper quantifies a tenant-side "split incentives" problem that exists when the largest commercial sector customers … previous split incentives papers, and is robust when exposed to several opportunities to fail. The electricity reduction in …

We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …