lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for … favoring private patients. For SHI holders, waiting times remained stable over time (27.5 days in 2014; 30.7 days in 2016; ? 3 … the patient’s insurance status. Our conclusion is that, the reform did not repair the existing inequalities. The gap has …

substantially across physicians and was highly stable for individual physicians. Patients of physicians in the 75th versus 25th …Despite increasing calls for value-based payments, existing methodologies for determining physicians' "value added" to …

plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting … the emergency department. One innovation is the construction of proxy measures for the types of physicians available using …

plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting … the emergency department. One innovation is the construction of proxy measures for the types of physicians available using …

substantially across physicians and was highly stable for individual physicians. Patients of physicians in the 75th versus 25th …Despite increasing calls for value-based payments, existing methodologies for determining physicians' "value added" to …

of both patients and physicians. Introducing this concept in a spatial economics model, we derive an augmented gravity … conduct a rich set of counterfactual simulations, illustrating that the effects of physicians' market exits on patient …

, which are increasingly capable of attracting more patients, and the group of the weakest regions, with growing patient …