Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign …-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that disfavor IMGs and FBPs may result in those … physicians offering better access to their services compared with non-IMGs/FBPs in equilibrium. We use data from two field …

This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her … practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical … expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who …

In recent health care reforms, several countries have replaced pure payment schemes for physicians (fee …-for-service, capitation) by so-called mixed payment schemes. Until now it is still an unresolved issue whether patients are really better off … after these reforms. In this study we compare the effects resulting from pure and mixed incentives for physicians under …

satisfaction by communicating waits to patients.We conduct a field experiment at an urban ED. We develop a machine learning … patients with personalized estimated waits with no overestimation (the median), moderate overestimation (70th-percentile), or … high overestimation (90th-percentile). Patients report higher satisfaction when receiving their estimated waits, but the …