How do Physicians Respond to Malpractice Allegations? Evidence from Florida Emergency Departments

We would like to thank Alice Chen, Lindsay Jacobs, Kosali Simon and Kathy Zeiler for serving as discussants and Frank Sloan for helpful comments. We also thank seminar participants at the American Economic Association Annual Meeting, the American Society of Health Economists Annual Meeting, the Electronic Health Economics Colloquium, the Empirical Health Law Conference, Harvard Medical School, the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, the Midwest Health Economics Conference, and the University of Minnesota. Caitlin Carroll acknowledges financial support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality T32 trainee program and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Anupam Jena acknowledges financial support from the National Institutes on Aging (1DP5OD017897).The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• January 6, 2021