TY - JOUR T1 - The Educational Pipeline for Health Care Professionals JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 116 LP - 156 DO - 10.3368/jhr.45.1.116 VL - 45 IS - 1 AU - Ivora Hinton AU - Jessica Howell AU - Elizabeth Merwin AU - Steven N. Stern AU - Sarah Turner AU - Ishan Williams AU - Melvin Wilson Y1 - 2010/01/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/45/1/116.abstract N2 - 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. ER -