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Les extendemos la invitación al seminario que organiza el Departamento de Economía, en el que se presentará el trabajo titulado "Physicians' Licensing and the Quantity-Quality Trade Off".

Expone: Juan Pablo Atal, Universidad de Pensilvania y NBER.

Coautores: Pablo Muñoz, Tomás Lorroucau y Cristobal Otero.

Abstract: Occupational licensing is a widespread quality regulation that increases the quality of labor but reduces its quantity. We provide a framework to empirically quantify this trade-off and apply it to physician licensing, where both quality and access to care are critical concerns. Using quasi-exogenous variation driven mostly by a recent and unprecedented migration of physicians to Chile, we show that more physicians improve access and patient outcomes in tertiary care, including mortality. We also find that lower quality---as measured by physician performance on the licensing exam---worsens patient outcomes. Building on these findings, we evaluate the implications of locally changing the stringency of the current licensing policy.

El formato será presencial en la sala H-203.

Saludos cordiales,

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