Nine states adopted caps on non-economic damages during the third medical malpractice reform wave from 2002–05, joining twenty-two other states with caps on non-economic or total damages. We study the effects of these reforms on physician supply. Across a variety of difference-in-differences (DiD), triple differences, and synthetic control methods, in both state- and county-level regressions, we find, with tight confidence intervals, no evidence that cap adoption leads to an increase in total patient care physicians, or in specialties that face high liability risk (with a possible exception for plastic surgeons), or in rural physicians.

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损害赔偿上限与医师的劳动力供给：来自第三次改革浪潮的证据

在2002-05年度的第三次医疗事故改革浪潮中，有9个州对非经济损失设定了上限，另外22个州对非经济或总损害设定了上限。我们研究了这些改革对医师供应的影响。在州和县一级的回归中，在各种差异，三重差异和综合控制方法中，我们发现，在紧密的置信区间内，没有证据表明采用上限会导致总数的增加病人护理医师或面临高责任风险的专科医师（整形外科医生可能除外），或在乡村医师中。