PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hinton, Ivora
AU  - Howell, Jessica
AU  - Merwin, Elizabeth
AU  - Stern, Steven N.
AU  - Turner, Sarah
AU  - Williams, Ishan
AU  - Wilson, Melvin
TI  - The Educational Pipeline for Health Care Professionals
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.45.1.116
DP  - 2010 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 116--156
VI  - 45
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/45/1/116.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/45/1/116.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2010 Jan 01; 45
AB  - 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.