Looking inside the lab: a systematic literature review of economic experiments in health service provision
Experimental economics is, nowadays, a well-established approach to investigate agents’ behavior under economic incen-
tives. In the last decade, a fast-growing number of studies have focused on the application of experimental methodology
to health policy issues. The results of that stream of literature have been intriguing and strongly policy oriented. However,
those fndings are scattered between diferent health-related topics, making it difcult to grasp the overall state-of-the-art.
Hence, to make the main contributions understandable at a glance, we conduct a systematic literature review of laboratory
experiments on the supply of health services. Of the 1248 articles retrieved from 2011, 56 articles published in peer-review
journals have met our inclusion criteria. Thus, we have described the experimental designs of each of the selected papers
and we have classifed them according to their main area of interest.
by:
Massimo Finocchiaro Castro Department of Law, Economics and Humanities, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria; Health Econometrics and Data Group, University of York; Institute for Corruption Studies, Illinois State University
Calogero Guccio Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania; Health Econometrics and Data Group, University of York; Institute for Corruption Studies, Illinois State University
Domenica Romeo Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania; Health Econometrics and Data Group, University of York