Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment
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- Dumont, Etienne & Fortin, Bernard & Jacquemet, Nicolas & Shearer, Bruce, 2008. "Physicians' multitasking and incentives: Empirical evidence from a natural experiment," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(6), pages 1436-1450, December.
- Etienne Dumont & Bernard Fortin & Nicolas Jacquemet & Bruce Shearer, 2008. "Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-00305308, HAL.
- Etienne Dumont & Bernard Fortin & Nicolas Jacquemet & Bruce S. Shearer, 2008. "Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment," CIRANO Working Papers 2008s-20, CIRANO.
- Dumont, Etienne & Fortin, Bernard & Jacquemet, Nicolas & Shearer, Bruce S., 2007. "Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment," IZA Discussion Papers 3229, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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Keywords
Physician payment mechanisms; multitasking; mixed-payment systems; incentive contracts; labour supply; self-selection; panel estimation;JEL classification:
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2008-02-16 (All new papers)
- NEP-HEA-2008-02-16 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2008-02-16 (Labour Economics)
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