financial incentives for physicians drive access to care and have important implications for patient health …

attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting … plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … the emergency department. One innovation is the construction of proxy measures for the types of physicians available using …

capital consists of the underlying human capital (productivity) of those who become physicians and the job …-specific investments (physician training) added to this underlying capital. The value of physicians' underlying human capital is estimated …

induced demand (PID). Using rich microdata on childbirth, we compare the treatment of physicians when they are patients with … that of comparable non-physicians. We exploit a unique institutional feature of California to determine how inducement … varies with obstetricians' financial incentives. Consistent with PID, physicians are almost 10 percent less likely to receive …

physicians' earnings and estimate the influence of healthcare policies on these earnings, physicians' labor supply, and … allocation of talent. Combining the administrative registry of U.S.~physicians with tax data, Medicare billing records, and … survey responses, we find that physicians' annual earnings average $350,000 and comprise 8.6% of national healthcare spending …

accuracy of physicians' income expectations, the sources of income prediction errors, and the effect of income prediction … maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other changes across health care markets. Physicians who experienced negative income shocks …

raise payments made to physicians and clinics under the Medicaid program, but reduce payments to hospitals. Finally, we …

potential overbilling based on the hours worked implied by the service codes physicians submit to Medicare. Using the Medicare … and Medicaid Services (CMS), we first construct estimates for physicians' hours spent on Medicare Part B FFS beneficiaries …. Despite our deliberately conservative estimation procedure, we find that about 2,300 physicians, or 3% of those with a …