tradeoff between the efficiency gains from increasing the supply of practitioners of family and community medicine and the … resulted in a relatively small efficiency gains from training more productive medical school graduates in family and community … efficiency. Conclusions: Policies designed to increase the prestige and remuneration of practitioners of family and community …

In Fairness versus Welfare, we advance the thesis that social policies should be assessed based entirely on their … effects on individuals' well-being. This thesis implies that no independent weight should be accorded to notions of fairness … (other than many purely distributive notions). We support our thesis in three ways: by demonstrating how notions of fairness …

fairness to their consumers. The theory relies on two psychological assumptions. First, customers care about the fairness of …This paper proposes a theory of price rigidity consistent with survey evidence that firms stabilize prices out of … rigid. Embedded in a simple macroeconomic model, our pricing theory produces nonneutral monetary policy, a short …

redistribution. We study the dynamic evolution of different economies in which redistributive policies, perceptions of fairness …, inequality and growth are jointly determined. We show how including fairness explains various observed correlations between … inequality, redistribution and growth. We also show how different beliefs about fairness can keep two otherwise identical …

fairness to their consumers. The theory relies on two psychological assumptions. First, customers care about the fairness of …This paper proposes a theory of price rigidity consistent with survey evidence that firms stabilize prices out of … rigid. Embedded in a simple macroeconomic model, our pricing theory produces nonneutral monetary policy, a short …