A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians … styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of … aspect of physicians' health management styles have important implications for patient outcomes and health care costs …

black veterans. The discrimination we observe is acute--we would not observe any racial mortality differences had physicians … not been racially biased in determining pension awards. The effect of income on health was indeed large enough to close … the black-white mortality gap in the period. Our work emphasizes that the large effects of physicians' attitudes on racial …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their … health care utilization by focusing on Medicare patients affected by PCP relocations or retirements, which we refer to as … results suggest that switching to higher-quality PCPs could significantly affect patients' longer-run health outcomes …

facing physicians …