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Determinants of Physicians' Decisions to Specialize by Robert Gagné; Pierre Thomas Léger is a Economics, Econometrics and Finance article available to read on EtoBox.
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In this paper, we study physician specialty decisions using several unique data sets which include information on almost all Canadian physicians who practised in Canada between 1989 and 1998. Unlike previous studies, we use a truly exogenous measure of potential income across general and specialty medicine to estimate the effect of income on physicians' specialty choices. Furthermore, our estimation procedure allows us to purge the income-effect estimates of non-pecuniary specialty attributes which may be correlated with higher paying specialties. Understanding the effect of potential income (and other variables) on choices is necessary if the desired mix across generalists and specialists as well as across specialties is to be achieved. Our results show that physicians respond to differences in income when making their specialty decisions.
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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Economics, Econometrics and Finance.
- Author
- Robert Gagné; Pierre Thomas Léger
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1057-9230)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)