physicians under medical liability rules. We theorize that physicians of particular backgrounds will be attracted to regions when … Resource File from 1977 to 2005, we find that the rate of surgeons among practicing physicians increases by 2-2.4 log points … effectively expects physicians to increase practice intensities. We find that this response is nearly three times greater in rural …

whether physicians invest in self-insurance by exploring how they respond to policies that allow them to lower the financial … cost of malpractice liability. Specifically, we test whether physicians exploit provisions of bankruptcy laws and adjust … file for bankruptcy—physicians invest 13% more in the value of their homes compared to what they would have invested in the …

In this paper, we explore the sensitivity in the clinical decisions of physicians to the standards of care expected of … them under the law, drawing on the abandonment by states over time of rules holding physicians to standards determined by …