the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

data collected on specialist physicians working in the Province of Quebec (Canada). Our data set contains information on … of policy reform under which physicians could choose between two compensation systems: the traditional fee …-for-service, under which physicians receive a fee for each service provided, and mixed remuneration, under which physicians receive a per …

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 …

determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … efficiency, we find that liability has a crucial, but verifiability only a minor effect. Allowing sellers to build up reputation … higher efficiency as long as liability is violated …

percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …

the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where … individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the …