Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we …

the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … and over time. Our estimates indicate that the FMP caused large declines in mortality rates across all age groups with … teenagers. Furthermore, the results are suggestive that the program has also contributed towards equalization in the mortality …

data. Factors emphasized in the economic theory of agency, notably risk aversion, also shape pay policies but these factors … cannot account for all the observed empirical relationships. -- incentives ; social norms ; physicians …

behavior. These features include: (1) physicians can choose a payment contract from a menu that includes an enhanced fee … blended capitation contract; (3) physicians sort selectively into the contracts based on their preferences; and (4) physicians … in the blended capitation model provide fewer services than physicians in the enhanced fee-for-service model. …

-form approach. Using detailed survey data for Australian physicians, we examine how these different modelling approaches affect …

possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and … occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium assortative matching takes place; more able physicians join occupations …

Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research … most physicians prefer to be good gatekeepers, all of them may trust their patients in Nash equilibrium. These ideas are … illustrated using results from focus group interviews with Norwegian primary care physicians. …

determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … efficiency, we find that liability has a crucial, but verifiability only a minor effect. Allowing sellers to build up reputation … higher efficiency as long as liability is violated. -- Credence goods ; experiment ; liability ; verifiability ; reputation …