there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients’ post-assignment mortality, in the … point decline in a patient’s two-year mortality risk. While we find evidence of observable doctor characteristics and …-quality doctors are, and that patient-generated GP ratings are uncorrelated with GP value-added. Using a lower bound of the predicted …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient … variation in patient-physician relations due to physician exits in general practice in Denmark. We estimate that physician …

We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which … private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe the expensive medication. The result holds after controlling for … individual-level factors including health indicators based on detailed administrative data, and patient fixed effects. In one of …

Suppliers who are better informed than purchasers, such as physicians treating insured patients, often have discretion …