styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of …A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians … have a substantial influence on patients' health and health-related costs, but we know little about the extent of this …

there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the …, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that … driven by unobserved differences across doctors. Finally, we show that patients are unable to identify who the high …

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 …

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 …