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How do insurers price medical malpractice insurance?
Black, Bernard S.; Traczynski, Jerey; Udalova, Victoria - 2022
Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we …
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The role of lawyer-legislators in shaping the law : evidence from voting behavior on tort reforms
Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law than legislators with a different professional background. This finding is based...
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Compensation in personal injury cases : mean or median income?
Danziger, Leif; Katz, Eliakim - 2019
Courts typically base compensation for loss of income in personal injury cases on either mean or median work income. Yet, quantatively, mean and median incomes are typically very different. For example, in the US median income is 65 percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to...
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Bargaining over labor : do patients have any power?
Gans, Joshua; Leigh, Andrew - 2011
provides an estimate of how bargaining power is distributed between patients and physicians. -- timing of births ; weekend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522493
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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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What factors affect doctors' hours decisions : comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches
Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; Scott, Anthony; Cheng, … - 2015
-form approach. Using detailed survey data for Australian physicians, we examine how these different modelling approaches affect …
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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits : an econometric analysis
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001
The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402427
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Healer or gatekeeper? : physicians' role conflict when symptoms are non-verifiable
Carlsen, Benedicte; Nyborg, Karine - 2017
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. …
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Gender homophily in referral networks : consequences for the medicare physician earnings gap
Zeltzer, Dan - 2017
In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians … receive referrals. I show that biased referrals are predominantly driven by physicians' decisions rather than by endogenous … sorting of physicians or patients or by gender differences in the labor supply. As 75% of doctors are men, estimates suggest …
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Physicians treating physicians : relational and informational advantages in treatment and survival
Chen, Stacey H.; Chen, Jennjou; Chuang, Hongwei; Lin, … - 2023
We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus networks in treatment choices and patient survival by matching comparable patients with doctors and admission periods to control unobserved doctor quality. Physician-patients are less...
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