Manasvini Singh, PhD │ CHIBE X LDI Research Seminar
Colonial Penn Center Auditorium 3641 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PAPower Dynamics in the Doctor-Patient Relationship with Manasvini Singh, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Economics | University of Massachusetts Amherst. 12:00p.m. – 1:00p.m. ET | September 22, 2022 | In-Person Event Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk Register at: https://share.hsforms.com/1OAgUi8w7RBS3jezwG7dS2Q5gwp1 Power, broadly defined as the asymmetric control of resources, affects nearly all individual decision making. Yet there is little observational evidence on how power affects real-world behavior and resource allocation. Understanding such power dynamics is especially important in health care, where “powerful” physicians make decisions for patients in highly asymmetric information environments. To examine this question, we exploit the...