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 …

determine whether patient negligence should be considered in litigation. The project examines the line at which a physician’s … owe themselves. In this collaboration, the authors imagine and unpack a new theory of trust; one which is animated by tort … theory, and reads reasonableness and bi-directionality into the trust relationship. In setting the tone of the paper, the …

We consider physicians with fixed capacity levels. If a physician's capacity exceeds demand, she may have an incentive …

question, "How should physicians be compensated?" We demonstrate theoretically that the preferred physician compensation scheme … which the efforts of physicians and patients are highly complementary, or in which both types of effort are important to the … patient effort, but not both are important to the outcome. Evidence to support this theory is provided by an empirical …