between firms. We test this in obstetrics markets, relying on random assignment of patients to physicians to generate unbiased …

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

Although doctors and hospitals own their patients' medical records, state and federal laws require that they provide … patients with a copy at "reasonable cost." We examine the effects of state laws that cap the fees that doctors and hospitals … are allowed to charge patients for a copy of their records. We test whether these laws affected patients' propensity to …

context of Norway's system for allocating patients to general practitioners (GPs). We provide direct evidence of misallocation … under the current system--patients sitting on waitlists for each others' GPs, but who cannot trade--and analyze an …--with especially large benefits for female patients and recent movers--patients endowed with undesirable GPs would be harmed …

patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in … within-area matching. We find that physicians vary greatly in the intensity with which they treat otherwise similar patients …

compliance with patient safety measures in both public and private facilities (more so in the latter) and reallocated patients …

transport patients and have strong preferences for certain hospitals. Being admitted to a hospital with two standard deviations …