Hockenberry, Jason; Helmchen, Lorens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
To test how practice interruptions affect worker productivity, we estimate how temporal breaks affect surgeons' performance of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Using a sample of 188 surgeons who performed 56,315 CABG procedures in Pennsylvania between 2006 and 2010, we find that a...