The shortage of primary care physicians is a global healthcare problem, especially in rural areas. In this paper, we … analyse the choice of location of primary care physicians and estimate the causal effect of financial incentives on the supply … of primary care physicians in underserved areas. Our analysis is based on a quasi-experimental setting from Hungary …

A number of False Claims Act lawsuits have alleged that managers at for-profithospitals pressured physicians, using … cross-sectionalestimates are consistent with allegations that administrators influenced physicians’ admissiondecisions …

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 …

This paper studies how gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from drug firms to physicians in the US affect … prescriptions and payments with causal inference and machine learning methods. We find that payments cause physicians to prescribe … more brand drugs, resulting in a cost increase of $30 per dollar received. Responses differ widely across physicians, and …

We study physicians' migration intentions by undertaking a Discrete Choice Experiment with senior Italian medical …

We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which … private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe the expensive medication. The result holds after controlling for … our cases, we further find that the same physicians prescribe different medication when working in different sectors …

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is …

Physicians: Evidence from the Third Reform Wave. It also reconciles our results to Helland and Seabury (2015). The underlying …