reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play … a series of modified Trust Games. In the game, patients can send money to providers, who are then able to reciprocate …. Patients can then file complaints if they are unhappy with the provider's level of reciprocity. We examine patient and provider …

Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected …

between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare … professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare … professionals and 22,788 patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. The matched outpatient proportion of patients not …

availability. In the patient preferences field experiment, we find that patients strongly prefer doctors educated in the United …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …. We find that the hospital length of stay of patients treated in departments that opted for the MC system increased on …

patients. Thus, targeting provider incentives through alternative payment models, such as episode-based reimbursement, is more …

the agency model that health care professionals understand what their patients want. Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs …) are conducted simultaneously within samples of patients (women who gave birth) and care-givers (doctors and nurses), to … elicit and contrast patients' authentic preferences (for five maternity ward attributes) with what care-givers believe them …

-for-service model. We also find that the FHO physicians have lower referral rates and enroll patients of similar complexity compared to …