We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that … separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and … patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in …

Primary care physicians have a central, coordination role in medicine, yet little is known about their impacts on … healthcare utilization. I study the short-run and long-run effects of switching to different primary care physicians on … utilization within healthcare markets. To estimate the short-run effects of changing primary care physicians on utilization, I …

This paper examines how physicians in China respond to a pay-for-performance scheme that mismeasures performance. In … to decrease drug expenditure. Using a unique patient-level data from a large Chinese hospital, I find that physicians … inducement hypothesis as physicians in China may receive under-the-counter commission for prescribing certain drugs. I also find …

exploit patient mobility between physicians to identify practice styles among general practitioners (GPs) in Austria. We use a …

after physicians leave, their former patients persistently reduce their primary care utilization, only partially … ist und dass der Hausarzt eine wichtige Rolle in der Gesundheitsversorgung spielt. …

To empirically assess how physicians respond to financial incentives, we leverage a quasi-natural experiment in France …, resulting in a slight increase in physicians' number of days worked. Drug prescription per patient is also shown to decrease …-career physicians responded strongly to these financial incentives, while later-career physicians hardly changed their labor supply …