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The Educational Pipeline for Health Care Professionals: Understanding the Source of Racial Differences

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  • Ivora Hinton
  • Jessica Howell
  • Elizabeth Merwin
  • Steven N. Stern
  • Sarah Turner
  • Ishan Williams
  • Melvin Wilson

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The underrepresentation of blacks in the healthcare professions may have direct implications for the health outcomes of minority patients, underscoring the importance of understanding movement through the educational pipeline into professional healthcare careers by race. We jointly model individuals’ postsecondary decisions including enrollment, college type, degree completion, and choosing a healthcare occupation requiring an advanced degree. We estimate the parameters of the model with maximum likelihood using data from the NLS-72. Our results emphasize the importance of pre-collegiate factors and of jointly examining the full chain of educational decisions in understanding the sources of racial disparities in professional healthcare occupations.

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Article provided by University of Wisconsin Press in its journal Journal of Human Resources.

Volume (Year): 45 (2010)
Issue (Month): 1 ()
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Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:45:y:2010:i:1:p116-156

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  1. Goeree, Michelle S. & Ham, John C. & Iorio, Daniela, 2011. "Caught in the Bulimic Trap? Persistence and State Dependence of Bulimia Among Young Women," IZA Discussion Papers 5824, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  2. Michelle Goeree & John Ham & Daniela Iorio, 2011. "Caught in the Bulimic Trap? Persistence and State Dependence of Bulimia Among Young Women," Working Papers 2011-033, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.

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