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SUBMITTER: Currie J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4774559 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Currie Janet J Lin Wanchuan W Meng Juanjuan J
Journal of public economics 20131101
This paper asks whether gift exchange generates externalities for people outside of the bilateral relationship between the gift giver and recipient, and whether the nature of this relationship is affected by social networks. We examine this question in the context of a field experiment in urban Chinese hospital outpatient clinics. We first show that when patients give a small gift, doctors reciprocate with better service and a fewer unnecessary prescriptions of antibiotics. We then show that gif ...[more]