migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand …

Overuse of medical care is often attributed to an informed expert problem, whereby doctors induce patients to purchase … unnecessary treatments. Alternatively, patients may drive overuse of medications by exerting pressure on doctors to overprescribe … randomized trial to identify the importance of patients in driving overuse of antimalarials in community health clinics in Mali …

information and medical knowledge among patients, an enormous number of health policies are focused on patient education. In this … campaigns. To do so, we compare the care received by a group of patients that should have the best possible information on … health care service efficacy—i.e., physicians as patients—with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various …

patients, providers and the economy. We find strong evidence that the ACA's provisions have increased insurance coverage. There …

substantially across physicians and was highly stable for individual physicians. Patients of physicians in the 75th versus 25th …