politics have anything to with their choices? Physicians are not, shall we say, the world’s greatest fans of arbitration. It … turns out that regulatory policies and practices, in other words politics, provide one important reason why physicians …, physicians, do not regard arbitration as the answer to all of their prayers …

the SES inequality in health. We measure physicians' SES by their childhood SES and find that SES concordance decreases … low-SES patients' mortality, while high-SES patients' mortality does not depend on their physicians' background. Together … and increases treatment of chronic conditions: low-SES patients with low-SES physicians receive more care at the intensive …

expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …

aspirin, Viagra, and minoxidil. This paper finds physicians and pharmaceutical companies working as entrepreneurial actors … counter evidence to the view that unregulated off-label prescription is prone to reckless prescribing habits by physicians and …

Canadian healthcare is facing a paradox: recently graduated specialist physicians struggle to find work, even as …

clinical payment to physicians has grown at an average annual rate of 7.6% from 2004 to 2010. The key policy question is … a crude indicator that labour productivity of FFS physicians has fallen during the period. The decline in volume of …