environment-level factors such as hospital capacity and productivity spillovers on physician behavior. Physicians starting in the …

-section rates across physicians within a market is two to three times greater than the variation between markets. Surprisingly …, residency programs explain less than four percent of the variation between physicians in their risk-adjusted c-section rates …, even among newly-trained physicians. Although we find evidence that physicians, especially relatively inexperienced ones …

.S. along two dimensions. If growth in malpractice payments results in higher malpractice insurance premiums for physicians … malpractice liability might also encourage physicians to practice 'defensive medicine.' We use rich new data to examine the … malpractice liability drive physicians to close their practices or not move to areas with high payments? Third, do increases in …

Physicians prescribing drugs for patients with schizophrenia and related conditions are remarkably concentrated in …'s "favorite" varied widely across physicians, i.e. physician prescribing concentration patterns are diverse. Building on Frank and …,652 physicians from IMS Health, we evaluate these predictions empirically. While physician prescribing behavior is generally quite …

are investigated. Physicians report having made substantial changes to their practice in response to the general … effect, with some physicians concentrating more in obstetrics and others in gynecological surgery. Overall, the evidence …

nature of the present system of liability rules, which largely hold physicians to standards determined according to industry … alteration of this system altogether--i.e., upon a change in the clinical standards to which physicians are held in the first …

or not salient to physicians. We test how physicians respond to malpractice allegations made directly against them. Our … sample is Emergency Department physicians in Florida, where we have the universe of data on patients and how they are treated … along with a census of malpractice complaints. We find that physicians oversee 9% fewer discharges after malpractice …