In the United States, rural and low-income communities have difficulty attracting and retaining physicians, potentially … adversely impacting health outcomes. With a limited supply of physicians completing medical school at US universities, foreign …-born and educated physicians provide a potential source of supply in underserved areas. For international medical school …

prior studies, we find that physicians updated their beliefs quickly, and do indeed adjust to new medical research …, particularly young physicians, prior to mandatory policy or professional guidelines …

with theoretical work on internal theory of the firm, which predicts that productivity compensation schemes will work well … production, as theory has hypothesized. The number of members in a group decreases both the quantity produced and the efficiency …

Physicians, judges, teachers, and agents in many other settings differ systematically in the decisions they make when …

theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do in fact induce physicians to deviate from a …

This paper studies the consequences of physician authority on pharmaceutical prescribing. Physicians engage in a costly … underlying level of physician skill or knowledge cannot be observed, differences among physicians in terms of these attributes … concentrated (i.e., some physicians prescribe a more diverse portfolio of drugs than others). Second, this concentration is …

physicians were to act as perfect agents for their patients, and even if moral hazard were to be eliminated, coordination failure …