| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14070 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14070 |
| Professional Partnerships and Matching in Obstetrics | |
| Andrew Epstein; Jonathan D. Ketcham; Sean Nicholson | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-06-10 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Theory indicates that internally-differentiated professional partnerships can promote matching between heterogeneous consumers and professionals, particularly when consumers have imperfect information or markets have barriers to referrals between firms. We test this in obstetrics markets, relying on random assignment of patients to physicians to generate unbiased measures of a physician's treatment style and skill, and on simulations to measure a physician's specialization. Consumers match to professionals along all three dimensions -- specialization, style and skill -- based on consumers' observed characteristics and unobserved preferences. We conclude that internally-differentiated partnerships promote matching in ways that improve consumers' welfare and health. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Economics of Information ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Labor Market Structures ; Industrial Organization ; Market Structure and Firm Performance ; Firm Behavior |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14070 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571745 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Andrew Epstein,Jonathan D. Ketcham,Sean Nicholson. Professional Partnerships and Matching in Obstetrics. 2008. |
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| w14070.pdf（314KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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