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 …

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 …

-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 …

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 …