This paper estimates the impact of gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from pharmaceutical firms on physicians … Part D, we find that payments cause physicians to prescribe more brand drugs. On average, for every dollar spent, payments … heterogeneity in responses to payments across physicians. Differences are predominantly explained by the insurance coverage of …

Motivated by the medical literature findings that physicians are inertial, we seek to understand (1) whether physicians … tools on persistence and drug choice, and we investigate whether physicians who exhibit persistence respond differently to …-sectional physician feature. Non-persistent physicians appear to be responsive to detailing and symposium meetings, whereas persistent …

physicians aim to eliminate drug therapies with low or disputed effectiveness, and substitute existing drug therapies with … cheaper generic therapies. Therefore, data for the prescription behavior of physicians are analyzed from the last ten years ….Since the introduction of drug budgets, physicians have steadily reduced the number of prescriptions for drugs with disputed …

Decision-making by physicians on patients' treatment has come under increased public scrutiny. In fact, there is a fair … amount of debate on the effects of marketing actions of pharmaceutical firms toward physicians and their impact on physician … of firms to physicians ndash; and patient requests do affect physician decision-making differentially across brands …

There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It … increases the use of antidepressants, opioids, anxiolytics, and sedatives, especially for female physicians. Among female …