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dc.contributor.authorFrakes, Michael
dc.contributor.authorGruber, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-11T15:01:45Z
dc.date.available2021-06-11T15:01:45Z
dc.date.issued2020-01
dc.identifier.issn1740-1453
dc.identifier.issn1740-1461
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130930
dc.description.abstractWe 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. Active-duty patients seeking treatment from military facilities cannot sue for harms resulting from negligent care, while protections are provided to dependents treated at military facilities and to all patients—active-duty or not—who receive care from civilian facilities. Drawing on this variation and addressing endogeneity in the choice of treatment location by estimating mother fixed effects specifications and by exploiting exogenous shocks to care location choices stemming from base-hospital closures, we find suggestive evidence that liability immunity increases cesarean utilization and treatment intensity during childbirth, with no measurable negative effect on patient outcomes.en_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12241en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alikeen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceProf. Gruber via Nicholas Albaughen_US
dc.titleDefensive Medicine and Obstetric Practices: Evidence from the Military Health Systemen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationFrakes, Michael and Jonathan Gruber. "Defensive Medicine and Obstetric Practices: Evidence from the Military Health System." Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 17, 1 (March 2020): 4-37. © 2020 Cornell Law School and Wiley Periodicals, Incen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economicsen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Empirical Legal Studiesen_US
dc.eprint.versionAuthor's final manuscripten_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.date.submission2021-06-09T18:24:09Z
mit.journal.volume17en_US
mit.journal.issue1en_US
mit.licenseOPEN_ACCESS_POLICY
mit.metadata.statusComplete


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