The formation of physician altruism

Arthur Attema, Matteo Galizzi, Mona Groß (), Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Yassin Karay (), Olivier L’haridon () and Daniel Wiesen ()
Additional contact information
Mona Groß: Universität zu Köln = University of Cologne
Olivier L’haridon: CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IUF - Institut universitaire de France - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche
Daniel Wiesen: Universität zu Köln = University of Cologne

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: We study how patient-regarding altruism is formed by medical education. We elicit and structurally estimate altruistic preferences using experimental data from a large sample of medical students (N = 733) in Germany at different progress stages in their studies. The estimates reveal substantial heterogeneity in altruistic preferences of medical students. Patient-regarding altruism is highest for freshmen, significantly declines for students in the course of medical studies, and tends to increase again for last year students, who assist in clinical practice. Also, patient-regarding altruism is higher for females and positively associated to general altruism. Altruistic medical students have gained prior practical experience in healthcare, have lower income expectations, and are more likely to choose surgery and pediatrics as their preferred specialty.

Keywords: Laboratory experiment; Medical education; Online experiment; Patient-regarding altruism; Specialty choice; Structural estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp and nep-hea
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-03980541v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Published in Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 87, pp.102716. ⟨10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102716⟩

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-03980541v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: The formation of physician altruism (2023)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03980541

DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102716

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().