This study investigates how competition influences the prescribing practices of physicians.
US state law changes granting nurse practitioners (NPs) the ability to prescribe controlled …

The inflow of refugees and their subsequent integration can be an important challenge for
both the refugees themselves and the host society. Policy interventions can improve the …

Variation in healthcare use and health outcomes is a major concern for health policy. The
availability of multi-dimensional administrative panel data sets has facilitated the study of the …

We investigate whether primary care physician and patient concordance in terms of socio-
economic status (SES) reduces the SES inequality in health. We measure physicians' SES …

Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities is a key goal of most health systems. A
challenge in this regard is that healthcare providers may have incentives to avoid or …

The complexity of variation in healthcare, particularly in mental health, remains poorly
understood. However, addressing this issue presents an opportunity to opti-mise the …

We explore physicians' role in moderating compliance with recommended vaccinations.
Using administrative data on the universe of Danish children and their healthcare providers …

By screening physicians with differentiated contracts, healthcare payers might better
address underand over-treatment. I characterize how efficiency depends on the dispersion …

There is evidence of large variation in medical treatments delivered across regions as well
as across physicians within the same clinical environment which is not explained by …

This paper exploits conditional random assignment of patients to general practitioners to
calculate a leniency measure of paid sick leave certification. We link these data to …