Looking inside the lab: a systematic literature review of economic experiments in health service provision

Massimo Finocchiaro Castro, Calogero Guccio () and Domenica Romeo
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Massimo Finocchiaro Castro: Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria
Domenica Romeo: University of Catania

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2024, vol. 25, issue 7, No 7, 1177-1204

Abstract: Abstract Experimental economics is, nowadays, a well-established approach to investigate agents’ behavior under economic incentives. In the last decade, a fast-growing number of studies have focused on the application of experimental methodology to health policy issues. The results of that stream of literature have been intriguing and strongly policy oriented. However, those findings are scattered between different health-related topics, making it difficult to grasp the overall state-of-the-art. Hence, to make the main contributions understandable at a glance, we conduct a systematic literature review of laboratory experiments on the supply of health services. Of the 1248 articles retrieved from 2011, 56 articles published in peer-review journals have met our inclusion criteria. Thus, we have described the experimental designs of each of the selected papers and we have classified them according to their main area of interest.

Keywords: Laboratory experiments; Supply of health services; Systematic literature review; Physicians’ behavior; Payment systems; Health policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D90 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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