We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within a multitasking environment. In 1999 the … on Quebec physicians to evaluate the impact of this change in incentives on their practice choices. We highlight the … clinical services and average time per clinical service. Our results show that, on average, the reform induced physicians who …

outcomes between physicians and another highly educated group, lawyers, and between surgeons and non-surgeon physicians … Education 2011 duty hour reform, which lowered trainee work hours, impacted the birth outcomes of babies born to physicians … compared with lawyers. We find that physicians have lower birth weights and shorter pregnancies than lawyers with the results …

. -- gender-earnings gap ; family-earnings gap ; labour force attachment ; decomposition methods ; family physicians ; MABEL …

introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed …

patterns of Canadian physicians. We choose this particular group for several reasons including the fact that they are paid on a …-productivity physicians (based on unobservables) are more likely to migrate to provinces where the productivity premium is greater, while low …-productivity physicians are more likely to migrate to areas where the productivity premium is lower. These results are consistent with a …

Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign …-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that disfavor IMGs and FBPs may result in those … physicians offering better access to their services compared with non-IMGs/FBPs in equilibrium. We use data from two field …

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

cannot account for all the observed empirical relationships. -- incentives ; social norms ; physicians …

We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario … distinct patients seen. We also find that the FHG physicians have lower referral rates and treat slightly more complex patients … than the comparable FFS physicians. These results suggest that the FHG model offers a promising alternative to the FFS …