Episode 21: David Silver on Peer Effects in the Emergency Department

David Silver is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University

The paper discussed in this episode is “Haste or Waste? Peer Pressure and Productivity in the Emergency Department”, by David Silver.

Other resources mentioned in this episode are:

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

Chan, D. C. (2016). Teamwork and moral hazard: evidence from the emergency department. Journal of Political Economy, 124(3), 734-770.

Chan, D. C. (2018). The efficiency of slacking off: Evidence from the emergency department. Econometrica, 86(3), 997-1030.