induced demand (PID). Using rich microdata on childbirth, we compare the treatment of physicians when they are patients with … that of comparable non-physicians. We exploit a unique institutional feature of California to determine how inducement … varies with obstetricians' financial incentives. Consistent with PID, physicians are almost 10 percent less likely to receive …

Physicians prescribing drugs for patients with schizophrenia and related conditions are remarkably concentrated in …'s "favorite" varied widely across physicians, i.e. physician prescribing concentration patterns are diverse. Building on Frank and …,652 physicians from IMS Health, we evaluate these predictions empirically. While physician prescribing behavior is generally quite …

A longstanding literature explores how altruism affects the way physicians respond to incentives and provide care. We … systematically influences the way physicians respond to reimbursement changes, and we identify the channels through which these …

capital consists of the underlying human capital (productivity) of those who become physicians and the job …-specific investments (physician training) added to this underlying capital. The value of physicians' underlying human capital is estimated …

Consumerism arises when patients acquire and use medical information from sources apart from their physicians, such as … cases harms both consumerist and ordinary patients. Data from a large national survey of physicians shows that high levels …

, exogenous changes in Medicaid reimbursement rates for physicians, we find that increasing payments for new patient office visits … cost-sharing, our results demonstrate that financial incentives for physicians drive access to care and have important …

health care service efficacy—i.e., physicians as patients—with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various … steps to account for unobservable differences between the two groups. Our results suggest that physicians do only slightly … better in adhering to both low- and high-value care guidelines than non-physicians – but not by much and not always …

Despite increasing calls for value-based payments, existing methodologies for determining physicians' "value added" to … substantially across physicians and was highly stable for individual physicians. Patients of physicians in the 75th versus 25th …

.S. along two dimensions. If growth in malpractice payments results in higher malpractice insurance premiums for physicians … malpractice liability might also encourage physicians to practice 'defensive medicine.' We use rich new data to examine the … malpractice liability drive physicians to close their practices or not move to areas with high payments? Third, do increases in …

attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting … plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … the emergency department. One innovation is the construction of proxy measures for the types of physicians available using …