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  • Lifetime earnings and physicians' choice of specialty
    Sloan, Frank (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1970-10)
    A study to determine whether lifetime earnings in various specialties influence physicians' choice of field. Although income payments to practicing physicians in certain specialties felt to be "shortage" fields may be a ...
  • Longevity Expectations and Death: Can People Predict Their Own Demise?
    Smith, V. Kerry; Jr, Donald H. Taylor; Sloan, Frank (American Economic Review, 2001)
    Many economists are convinced that when individuals are asked to formulate probabilities they are unlikely to do it correctly (Mark J. Machina, 1990). However, the same analysts would likely add that people do have a ...
  • Physician supply behavior in the short run
    Sloan, Frank (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1975-07)
    This study analyzes determinants of two dimensions of the supply of physicians' services: the number of hours physicians work per week and the number of weeks they work per year. Data indicate that physician supply in the ...