https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/maria-polyakova/Maria PolyakovaHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/the-earnings-and-labor-supply-of-u.s.-physicians/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/the-earnings-and-labor-supply-of-u.s.-physicians/<p><strong>Research Question.</strong> What do U.S. physicians earn, how is that earnings variation structured across geography and specialty, and how much does government healthcare payment policy shape those earnings and — through them — physicians&rsquo; labor supply and long-run talent allocation?</p> <p><strong>Data.</strong> The paper builds a novel administrative panel by merging the universe of U.S. federal individual income tax returns (2005–2017) with: the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) physician registry; Medicare billing records with procedure-level Relative Value Unit (RVU) rates (2012–2017); restricted-use American Community Survey responses; Social Security Administration demographic records; and medical school ranking and graduation data. The main sample covers 11.6 million physician-year observations for 965,000 unique physicians aged 20–70.</p>