How do malpractice lawsuits affect physician behavior? Despite the central importance of this question in understanding the design of malpractice law, empirical evidence on this question remains limited. In this paper, I study the impact of malpractice claims against obstetricians, a specialty that is regarded as particularly subject to malpractice concerns, on their choice of whether to perfor...

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background: this study was done to determine the prevalence of publication misconduct among iranian authors. methods: data were collected through an email survey of corresponding authors of papers published in iranian journals indexed in scopus during 2009-2011. using the double list experiment, these individuals were indirectly questioned about committing one of the five misconducts including ...