Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money for otherwise equal newborns with birth weight just below compared to just above specific birth weight thresholds. As hospitals receive more money for cases with weight below the...

Recent experimental studies analyze the behavior of physicians towards patients and nd that physicians care for their own pro t as well as patient bene t. In this paper, we extend the experimental analysis of the physician decision problem by adding a third party representing the health...

A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new light on this discussion by analyzing the health...