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

cannabis) that occurred in Italy in 2017. Using unique and high-frequency data on prescription drug sales and by exploiting the … light cannabis and anxiolytics, sedatives, opioids, anti-depressants, and antipsychotics. Such medical non-adherence is …

Using data from a new longitudinal survey of doctors from Australia, the authors test whether observed large gender …

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 …

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 …