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Do physicians respond to financial incentives? We address this question by analyzing the prescription behavior of … physicians who are allowed to dispense drugs themselves through onsite pharmacies. Using administrative data comprising over 16 …
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regulated at the federal level. Dispensing creates financial incentives for physicians to sell more drugs and to substitute …In many healthcare markets, physicians can influence the volume (volume response) and the composition of the services …
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In the fight against antibiotic resistance, reducing antibiotic consumption while preserving healthcare quality presents a critical health policy challenge. We investigate the role of practice styles in patients' antibiotic intake using exogenous variation in patient-physician assignment....
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We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which … private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe the expensive medication. The result holds after controlling for … our cases, we further find that the same physicians prescribe different medication when working in different sectors …
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manipulating incentives to participate in this health intervention allows us to study peer effects with organizational data and to …
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manipulating incentives to participate in this health intervention allows us to study peer effects with organizational data and to …
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less available, and where antibiotics were previously overprescribed. The quality of prescribing behaviour measured by the …
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