Primary care physicians have two roles: the healer and the gatekeeper. We show that, due to information asymmetries … truly sick and shirkers, will strictly prefer physicians who give priority to healing. The choice between work and sick … leave thus lies, essentially, with the patient. Interviews with Norwegian primary care physicians confirm this: Our …

This paper exploits a Norwegian physician directed reform aimed to reduce sick-leave. Physicians were required to … documentation requirement laid on physicians within the first 8 weeks of a sick-leave spell. Physician-directed policies may be an …

This paper assesses the causal effect of sick-leaves on subsequent earnings using an administrative dataset for Norway … linking individual earnings, sick-leave records and primary care physicians. The leniency of a worker's physician - certifying …

neutral Norway must clearly go beyond the direct (soldiers wounded physically and mentally) and indirect effects (rationing of …

goods, and we distinguish between three different death causes, heart disease, environmentally related illnesses and traffic … accidents. 1000 randomly chosen individuals in Norway were faced a three-part valuation procedure: 1) pairwise comparisons … reduce overall population mortality risk, and 3) WTP for individual treatment reducing own mortality risk from heart disease …

The municipalities in Norway are responsible for providing care for their inhabitants in need. The care takes two main …