セミナーシリーズ
応用ミクロ経済学セミナー（2024.6.14）
David Chan（Associate Professor, Stanford University）
- 開催日：
- 2024年6月14日（金）10:30-12:00
- 場所：
- 京都大学 吉田キャンパス 法経済学部東館 1 階 108 演習室
- 言語：
- 英語
- コーディネーター：
- 山田 憲
タイトル:
“The productivity of professions: Evidence from the emergency department”
Abstract:
This paper studies the productivity of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians, two professions performing overlapping tasks but with starkly different background, training, and pay. Using quasi-experimental variation in patient assignment to NPs versus physicians in Veterans Health Administration emergency departments, we find that, on average, NPs use more resources and achieve less favorable patient outcomes than physicians. However, the NP-physician performance difference varies by case complexity and severity. Importantly, even larger productivity variation exists within each profession, leading to substantial overlap between the productivity distributions of the two professions and a large share of NPs performing even better than the average physician.