ABSTRACT We estimate the relationship between mental health drug prescriptions and the level of labor market activity in the USA. Based on monthly data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey of physicians and aggregated by US census regions, we find that the number of mental health...

Health economists have hypothesized for some time that physicians produce medical care in an inefficient manner. Further, whether solo or group practice physicians are relatively more inefficient has been a question of particular interest. Theoretical considerations suggest that solo and group...

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Detection controlled estimation (DCE) is a powerful new econometric estimator in the family of missing data estimators. By collecting measures from a variety of inspectors or inspection technologies, DCE is able to make inferences about the entire population, even when that population is not...