Review Report

A good report should summarize the main approach and contribution of the paper, and then provide a critical
assessment of the work. Referee reports should be less than 2 pages, single-spaced.
Pick one paper from below and write a review report.
List:
Supply of healthcare: physicians, nurses, and hospitals

  1. Fuchs, V. R. (1996). Economics, values, and health care reform. American Economic Review, 86(1), 1-24.
  2. Kessler, D., & McClellan, M. (1996). Do doctors practice defensive medicine?. The Quarterly Journal of
    Economics, 111 (2), 353-390.
  3. Mark G. Duggan, “Hospital Ownership and Public Medical Spending” The Quarterly Journal of Economics
    (2000) 115 (4): 1343-1373
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  4. Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "The productivity of physician specialization: evidence from the
    Medicare program." The American Economic Review94.2 (2004): 357-361.
  5. Dafny, L. S. (2005). How do hospitals respond to price changes?The American Economic Review, 95(5),
    1525-1547.
  6. Currie, J., & MacLeod, W. B. (2008). First do no harm? Tort reform and birth outcomes. The Quarterly
    Journal of Economics , 123 (2), 795-830.
  7. Acemoglu, D., & Finkelstein, A. (2008). Input and technology choices in regulated industries: Evidence from
    the health care sector. Journal of Political Economy, 116 (5), 837-880.
  8. Doyle Jr, J. J., Ewer, S. M., & Wagner, T. H. (2010). Returns to physician human capital: Evidence from
    patients randomized to physician teams. Journal of health economics , 29 (6), 866-882.
  9. Chandra, A., Cutler, D., & Song, Z. (2011). Who ordered that? The economics of treatment choices in
    medical care. In Handbook of Health Economics (Vol. 2, pp. 397-432). Elsevier.
  10. Schuur, J. D., & Venkatesh, A. K. (2012). The growing role of emergency departments in hospital
    admissions. New England Journal of Medicine, 367 (5), 391-393.
  11. Frakes, M. (2013). The impact of medical liability standards on regional variations in physician behavior:
    evidence from the adoption of national-standard rules. The American Economic Review, 103(1), 257-276.
  12. Clemens, J., & Gottlieb, J. D. (2014). Do physicians' financial incentives affect medical treatment and
    patient health?. The American economic review, 104(4), 1320-1349.

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