villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At …This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 … the same time, there is significant social distance among various faith groups in our data: both Hindus and Muslims trust …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

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 …

expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …

from a subset of patients' electronic medical records, we also find that the app directs patients to the hospital and …

a series of modified Trust Games. In the game, patients can send money to providers, who are then able to reciprocate … reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play …. Patients can then file complaints if they are unhappy with the provider's level of reciprocity. We examine patient and provider …

to the patients. To identify the causal impact of the FMP, we exploit the variation in its introduction across provinces …