physicians' behavior. Medical students decide as experimental physicians on the quantity of medical services. Real patients gain …. Financial incentives are not the only motivation for physicians' quantity decisions, though. The patient benefit is of … physicians are paid by FFS. -- Physician payment system ; laboratory experiment ; incentives ; fee-for-service ; capitation …

Understanding how physicians respond to incentives from payment schemes is a central concern in health economics … capitation payments on physicians’ supply of medical services. In our experiment, physicians choose quantities of medical … services for patients with different states of health. We find that physicians provide significantly more services under fee …

from a physician’s retirement. We then show that online physician reviews reduce this gap and help patients find a new … physician reviews, but are not found for patients of nonretiring physicians. By reducing interruptions in care, reviews can …

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 …

The share of female physicians has risen in OECD countries in recent decades, but we know little about the effects of …