How to Attract Physicians to Underserved Areas? Policy Recommendations from a Structural Model
利用巴西2001至2013年全科医生的区位选择数据，估计医生偏好与供需模型，发现医学院对欠发达地区学生的配额和在这些地区增设名额比经济激励更划算。
Abstract This paper exploits location choices of all generalist physicians who graduated in Brazil between 2001 and 2013 to study policies aimed at increasing the supply of physicians in underserved areas. We set up and estimate a supply and demand model for physicians. We estimate physicians' locational preferences using a random coefficients discrete choice model. The demand has private establishments competing for physicians with private and public facilities around the country. Policy counterfactuals indicate that quotas in medical schools for students born in underserved areas and the opening of vacancies in medical schools in deprived areas are more cost-effective than financial incentives.