Cost‐control interventions that target physicians' clinical discretion are common in healthcare, but evidence on their efficacy is scarce; in particular for "soft" policies when liability is unlikely to be enforced by the regulator. We study the effectiveness of preferred drug policies (minimum...

We study the extent to which physician treatment styles are determined by their practice environment and whether such decisions affect the quality of care received by patients. Using rich data on all coronary angioplasty procedures in Sweden 2004–2013, our empirical approach compares stent...

While physicians are crucial to patient outcomes, what determines physician behavior and decision making remains to be understood. In this paper, we study how physicians' family characteristics influence physicians' behavior and patient health outcomes. Using administrative data from Denmark and...

While physicians are crucial to patient outcomes, what determines physician behavior and decision making remains to be understood. In this paper, we study how physicians' family characteristics influence physicians' behavior and patient health outcomes. Using administrative data from Denmark and...