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The Long-term Impact of Work-hour Regulations on Physician Labor Supply

In: Change at Home, in the Labor Market, and On the Job

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This chapter estimates the impact of a transitory reduction in hours during physicians' early career on their long-term labor supply, using the work-hour regulations on medical residents as the source of exogenous variation. The results show that exposure to the regulations significantly decreases practicing physicians' labor supply by about 4 hours per week on average, with female physicians being more responsive to a given reduction in early career hours. Distributional results using a changes-in-changes model confirm that the regulations primarily affect the upper end of the work-hour distribution. To reveal potential mechanisms of these effects, this study finds that the reform increases the probabilities of marriage and having a child, as well as the total number of children, for female physicians. In contrast, it does not have a significant impact on marriage and fertility outcomes for male physicians. These findings provide a better understanding of physicians' hours of work in response to the reform over time and the role of gender with respect to labor supply behavior and family formation decisions.

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  • Judith Liu, 2020. "The Long-term Impact of Work-hour Regulations on Physician Labor Supply," Research in Labor Economics, in: Change at Home, in the Labor Market, and On the Job, volume 48, pages 27-60, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rleczz:s0147-912120200000048002
    DOI: 10.1108/S0147-912120200000048002
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    Keywords

    Regulation; labor supply; physicians; gender differences; marriage; fertility; I18; J12; J13; J16; J22; J44;
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    JEL classification:

    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations

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