International Comparison of Physician Incomes

This paper has been prepared for the AEA Papers & Proceedings. Any views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau’s Disclosure Review Board and Disclosure Avoidance Officers have reviewed this data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and have approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied to this release, authorization numbers CBDRB-FY2020-CES005-035, CBDRB-FY21-009, CBDRB-FY2021-CES010-015, CBDRB-FY2021-CES010-01, and CBDRB-FY23-0319. We thank the staff at the Toronto Research Data Centre for facilitating access to the Canadian data used here. Gottlieb and Buehler gratefully acknowledge support from the Becker-Friedman Institute. Gottlieb thanks the Center for Incentive Design and the Institute for Humane Studies (grant no. IHS017508) for research support. We also thank the Enhancing Health Data (EHealth) program at the U.S. Census Bureau for providing support. We are grateful to the discussant, Atul Gupta, and to session organizers Amy Finkelstein and Jonathan Skinner for support and comments on this research. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.