Physician Learning and Forgetting: Evidence from the US Military
We are grateful for helpful comments from Austin Bean, Stuart Craig, Guy David, Jason Hockenberry, Jonathan Skinner, seminar participants at UT San Antonio and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and conference participants at the the Wharton People Analytics Conference, The Midwest Health Economics Conference, the Conference of the American Society of Health Economists, and the Empirical Management Conference (HBS). We thank the Army Analytics Group Research Facilitation Laboratory Person-Event Data Environment for facilitating this research. Gupta was a Dorinda and Mark Winkelman Distinguished Faculty Scholar while working on this paper. The opinions and assertions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of Brooke Army Medical Center, the Defense Health Agency, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Stephen Schwab discloses he is a retired member of the United States Army and maintains external research relationships with Brooke Army Medical Center and the United States Military Academy’s Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis. He received non-financial support for this research through Army Analytics Group Person-Event Data Environment.
