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| Title: | | On the sorting of physicians across medical occupations  |
| Authors: | | Courty, Pascal Marschke, Gerald |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 3862 |
| Abstract: | | We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium assortative matching takes place; more able physicians join occupations less exposed to moral hazard risk, face more powerful performance incentives, and are more productive. Under-consumption of health services relative to the first best allocation increases with occupational (moral hazard) risk. Occupations with risk above a given threshold are not viable. The model offers an explanation for the persistence of distortions in the mix of health care services offered, the differential impact of malpractice risk across occupations, and the recent growth in medical specialization. |
| Subjects: | | Performance measurement moral hazard incentives matching pre-matching investment career choice medical specialization |
| JEL: | | D82 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20081216162 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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