, employment, costs, and quality of providing certain types of medical services. We find that when only physicians are allowed to …

the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing … and quasi-experimental variation in the patient probability of being treated by physicians versus NPs in the emergency … department, we find that, compared to physicians, NPs significantly increase resource utilization but achieve worse patient …

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 …

Burnout of physicians and other medical personnel is a major problem in the economics of healthcare systems …

In a pervasive but controversial practice, drug firms frequently make monetary or in-kind payments to physicians in the … physician-drug combination. In an event study, we show that physicians increase prescribing of drugs for which they receive … payments in the months just after payment receipt, with no evidence of differential trends between paid and unpaid physicians …

Physicians commonly receive marketing-related transfers from drug firms. We examine the impact of these relationships … fading out within a year. A marketing payment also leads physicians to begin treating cancer patients with lower expected …