Defensive Medicine and Obstetric Practices: Evidence from the Military Health System

We estimate the extent of defensive medicine by physicians during labor and delivery, drawing on a novel and significant source of variation in liability pressure. In particular, we embrace the no-liability counterfactual made possible by the structure of liability rules in the Military Heath System...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Frakes, Michael, Gruber, Jonathan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: Wiley 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130930