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 …

We measure the response of physicians to monetary incentives using matched administrative and time-use data on … specialists from Québec (Canada). These physicians were paid fee-for-service contracts and supplied a number of different services …-supply response of physicians to broad-based fee increases. The second is the response to changes in the relative prices of individual …

patterns of Canadian physicians. We choose this particular group for several reasons including the fact that they are paid on a …-productivity physicians (based on unobservables) are more likely to migrate to provinces where the productivity premium is greater, while low …-productivity physicians are more likely to migrate to areas where the productivity premium is lower. These results are consistent with a …

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 …

provides an estimate of how bargaining power is distributed between patients and physicians …

physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day … immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the …

Pay for performance (P4P) incentives for physicians are generally designed as additional payments that can be paired … find that physicians in a blended capitation model are more responsive to the DMI than physicians in an enhanced fee …