, affects physicians' medical service provision and the quality of care. Using a series of controlled experiments with … physicians and students, we test the incentive effect of performance pay at a within-subject level. A discrete bonus is granted …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …

there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the …

We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our theoretical model physicians …

We present a model on learning in health-care markets. Hospitals have junior physicians with low and senior physicians … with high abilities. Junior physicians turn senior if they serve sufficiently many patients. Patients face heterogeneous … physicians or let patients choose their physicians. In a monopolistic market, the hospital always chooses the welfare …

physicians' service quality and interpersonal skills, ratings are positively associated with important conventional measures of … clinical quality, including physicians' credentials, their adherence to clinical guidelines, and their patients' risk … on patient flow, measured by physicians' patient revenue and patient volume. By instrumenting for physicians' ratings …

from a physician’s retirement. We then show that online physician reviews reduce this gap and help patients find a new … physician reviews, but are not found for patients of nonretiring physicians. By reducing interruptions in care, reviews can …