licensed health care professions in Sweden - physicians and nurses - the study investigates if, and how, they try to limit the …

We ask how competition influences the prescribing practices of physicians. Law changes granting nurse practitioners … variation in competition. In response, we find that general practice physicians (GPs) significantly increase their prescribing …. Our findings are consistent with a simple model of physician behavior in which competition for patients leads physicians …

, Medicare's regulatory externalities are less well-understood. We study such implications by examining how physicians …

Shortage Areas (HPSAs). Several programs use these designations to incentivize physicians to practice in areas of need … physicians billing in HPSAs. We use data from CMS and a matched difference-in-differences design to estimate the causal effects … number of early-career primary care physicians. The increase is driven by physicians who attended ranked medical schools. In …

physicians by 60 percent — though the size of this increase decreases as the supply of physicians increases. I find a similar …