Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research … indicates a substantial reluctance to reject patient requests for sickness certificates. We show that private information on the … patient's part creates a conflict between the healer and gatekeeper roles: if a patient reports subjective symptoms indicating …

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. …

department more suitable to their medical conditions and to less busy days, resulting in a better match between patient demand …

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

norms and physician defensive behavior when female physicians treat male SPs. Our findings imply that improving patient … present novel evidence on the impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality using standardized patients (SPs …) in an experiment, and collected interactions between SPs and physicians in a primary care setting. We find that, compared …