behind high-diffusion hospitals, raising the question of why some hospitals (and the physicians who work there) adopt so …

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 …