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

We study the relationship between outside options and workers’ motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in …

provision of incentives. Relative price and income effects are shown to be identifiable and strong. A number of empirically …

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 … driven by unobserved differences across doctors. Finally, we show that patients are unable to identify who the high …-quality doctors are, and that patient-generated GP ratings are uncorrelated with GP value-added. Using a lower bound of the predicted …

expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …

. While this question has been widely discussed in the literature, the focus is usually either on strict incentives for … incentives and robustness to strategic uncertainty. The result is a set valued solution, a variant of which is shown to exist for …