there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the …, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that … driven by unobserved differences across doctors. Finally, we show that patients are unable to identify who the high …

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

corresponding medical benefits for patients. Heterogeneity analysis shows that mothers with low income and low education are those … argue that patient’s access to online information is changing the relationship between health care providers and patients. …

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. …

of both patients and physicians. Introducing this concept in a spatial economics model, we derive an augmented gravity …This paper estimates a theory-guided gravity equation of regional patient flows. In our model, a patient’s choice to … conduct a rich set of counterfactual simulations, illustrating that the effects of physicians’ market exits on patient …

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. …