Health Services as Credence Goods: a Field Experiment <> "We present the results from a field experiment in the market for dental care: a test patient who does not need treatment is sent to 180 dentists to receive treatment recommendations. "
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@vukosi "Furthermore, we find significantly fewer overtreatment recommendations for patients with higher socio-economic status compared with lower socio-economic status for standard visits."

... Well, that escalated unexpectedly in the opposite direction ;-)

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