, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that … 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 …

) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. We show that …We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii … to higher waiting times. These results are robust to different game-theoretic solution concepts, designs of the hospital …

This paper estimates a theory-guided gravity equation of regional patient flows. In our model, a patient’s choice to … of both patients and physicians. Introducing this concept in a spatial economics model, we derive an augmented gravity …

trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …

primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from Sweden and an effectively random assignment of patients to nurses …, who differ in their propensity to direct patients to online versus in-person consultations. Our findings reveal that … online’s advantages for different patients and how to improve hybrid organizations’ cost effectiveness. …

There were no innovations in chemotherapy for myeloma patients during the period 1977-1997, but there have been several … patients using both time-series U.S. data and longitudinal data on 26 countries. In the US, the average annual rate of increase … of life expectancy of myeloma patients at time of diagnosis was over five times as large during 1997-2005 as it had been …