Session Chairs:

Jason M Hockenberry, Emory University and NBER

Papers:

"Tort Reform, Medical Expenditures, and Patient Outcomes"
Ehren Schuttringer, Michigan State University (Contact Author)

"The Welfare Effects of Free Entry: Evidence from the Pennsylvania Cardiac Care Market"
Suhui Li, George Washington University (Contact Author)

"Medical Malpractice Lawsuits as Bad Signals: Does the Fear of Being Sued Encourage Better Quality of Care?"
Yi Lu, Barry University (Contact Author)

"Physician Treatment Incentives: Competition, Moral Hazard, and the Role of Managed Care in Treatment Choice"
Kevin Pflum, The University of Alabama (Contact Author)

"Inattention in the Operating Room? The Effect of Temporal Distance on Physician Performance and Efficiency: Evidence from Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting"
Jason M Hockenberry, Emory University and NBER (Contact Author)
Lorens Helmchen, George Mason University

Discussants:

Kevin Pflum, The University of Alabama
Ehren Schuttringer, Michigan State University
Suhui Li, George Washington University
Yi Lu, Barry University
Lorenzo Almada, Georgia State University

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Session Chairs:

Annette Tomal, Wheaton College

Papers:

"Effect of HIV Testing on Own and Peer Behavior"
Mykhailo Sitiuk, University of Houston (Contact Author)

"Does Incentive Pay Alter Physician Effort? An Analysis of the Time and Care that Physicians Provide to Patients"
Carolyn Wolff, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Contact Author)

"Sex, Drugs, and Cancer: The Association Between Oral Tobacco Use, HPV, and Cancers of the Head and Neck"
Jennifer Maki, North Carolina State University (Contact Author)

"Increasing Organ Donation via Changes in the Default Choice or Allocation Rule"
Danyang Li, Georgia State University (Contact Author)

"Medicare Part D and Physician Drug Prescribing"
Tianyan Hu, Lehigh University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Suhui Li, George Washington University
Lauren R. Heller, Berry College
John Robst, University of South Florida
Melanie Cozad, Furman University
Kyle Ross, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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