expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the …

endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the …This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood … measles, influenza and bronchitis. To investigate diminishing returns to health care provision, we develop a semiparametric …

consumption without compromising health care quality poses one of the most important global health policy challenges. A crucial … condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient … demand. We measure the causal effect of physician practice style on antibiotic intake and health outcomes exploiting …

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

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 …