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6380
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Overview

Daniel P. Kessler is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the health professions, with a notable emphasis on healthcare policy and management. They have contributed extensively to topics including global healthcare and medical tourism, global health care issues, consumer perception and purchasing behavior, culinary culture and tourism, primary care and health outcomes, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Kessler's body of work includes publications in several academic venues. Frequent publication places for their work and related research include:

  • Sustainability
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Studies
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Spa and Wellness

They have frequently collaborated with several scholars, including:

  • M. Kate Bundorf (4 collaborations)
  • Elizaveta Levina (3 collaborations)
  • Hyung-Min Choi (2 collaborations)
  • Byeong-Ju Jang (2 collaborations)
  • Jun-Hyuk Lee (1 collaboration)

Kessler's recent research outputs feature a variety of topics within healthcare economics and management. Some of their notable papers include:

  • The wellness tourist motivation scale: a new statistical tool for measuring wellness tourist motivation, 2020, International Journal of Spa and Wellness
  • Trauma Center Hospitals Charged Higher Prices For Some Nontrauma Care Than Non-Trauma Center Hospitals, 2012-18, 2024, Health Affairs

The main fields of study covered in their publications are:

  • Health Professions

They also contribute to several subfields such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Marketing
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Their work spans multiple interdisciplinary topics, reflecting the complexity of health care systems and the intersection of economic, social, and behavioral factors influencing health outcomes and consumer behavior.

Best Publications

  • Is More Information Better? The Effects of 'Report Cards' on Health Care Providers

    David Dranove;Daniel Kessler;Mark McClellan;Mark Satterthwaite

  • Is Hospital Competition Socially Wasteful

    Daniel P. Kessler;Mark B. McClellan

  • Do Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine

    Daniel P. Kessler;Mark B. McClellan

  • Dynamics of Cosponsorship

    Daniel Kessler;Keith Krehbiel

  • USING SENTENCE ENHANCEMENTS TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN DETERRENCE AND INCAPACITATION

    Daniel P Kessler;Steven D Levitt

  • Vertical Integration: Hospital Ownership Of Physician Practices Is Associated With Higher Prices And Spending

    Laurence C. Baker;M. Kate Bundorf;Daniel P. Kessler

  • Explaining Deviations from the Fifty-Percent Rule: A Multimodal Approach to the Selection of Cases for Litigation

    Daniel P. Kessler;Thomas Meites;Geoffrey P. Miller

  • Impact of Malpractice Reforms on the Supply of Physician Services

    Daniel P. Kessler;William M. Sage;David J. Becker

  • Birth order, family size, and achievement: family structure and wage determination.

    Daniel Kessler

  • What do prosecutors maximize? An analysis of the federalization of drug crimes

    EL Glaeser;DP Kessler;A Morrison Piehl

  • How liability law affects medical productivity

    Daniel P. Kessler;Mark B. McClellan

  • Does patient satisfaction affect patient loyalty

    Daniel P. Kessler;Deirdre Mylod

  • The Effects of Competition on Variation in the Quality and Cost of Medical Care

    Daniel P. Kessler;Jeffrey J. Geppert

  • Evaluating the Medical Malpractice System and Options for Reform

    Daniel P. Kessler

  • The effect of hospital/physician integration on hospital choice

    Laurence C. Baker;M. Kate Bundorf;Daniel P. Kessler

  • Effects of the medical liability system in Australia, the UK, and the USA.

    Daniel P Kessler;Nicholas Summerton;John R Graham

  • The effects of hospital ownership on medical productivity

    Daniel P Kessler;Mark B McClellan

  • THE EFFECTS OF CARDIAC SPECIALTY HOSPITALS ON THE COST AND QUALITY OF MEDICAL CARE

    Jason R. Barro;Robert S. Huckman;Daniel P. Kessler

  • Malpractice law and health care reform: optimal liability policy in an era of managed care

    Daniel Kessler;Daniel Kessler;Mark McClellan

  • Do markets respond to quality information? The case of fertility clinics

    M. Kate Bundorf;Natalie Chun;Gopi Shah Goda;Daniel P. Kessler

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark McClellan
Mark McClellan Duke University
Laurence C. Baker
Laurence C. Baker Stanford University
Michael E. Chernew
Michael E. Chernew Harvard University
Frank Windmeijer
Frank Windmeijer University of Bristol
Jeff Richardson
Jeff Richardson Monash University
Alistair McGuire
Alistair McGuire London School of Economics and Political Science
Joseph P. Newhouse
Joseph P. Newhouse Harvard University
Christa Meisinger
Christa Meisinger University of Augsburg

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