scheduling problem with multiple servers and consideration of patient preference for physicians and their appointment times. The …, which is defined as the revenue generated from accepted requests minus the cost incurred by patients waiting and physicians …

induced demand (PID). Using rich microdata on childbirth, we compare the treatment of physicians when they are patients with … that of comparable non-physicians. We exploit a unique institutional feature of California to determine how inducement … varies with obstetricians' financial incentives. Consistent with PID, physicians are almost 10 percent less likely to receive …