We study the effect of physician workforce diversity on the demand for preventive care
among African American men. In an experiment in Oakland, California, we randomize black …

Many public and private sector efforts are devoted toward increasing the training of
physicians from under-represented minority groups, yet little has been documented …

This paper considers the role of statistical discrimination as a potential explanation for racial
and ethnic disparities in health care. The underlying problem is that a physician may have a …

Health disparities across racial and ethnic groups in the United States have been well
documented for over a century and have remained remarkably persistent in spite of the …

Importance Disparities in quality of care according to patient race and socioeconomic status
persist in the US. Differential referral patterns to specialist physicians might be associated …

Very little is known about the economic consequences of men's health disparities. Using
data from the 2006 through 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and the National Vital …

This study seeks to determine whether minority Americans tend to see physicians of their
own race as a matter of choice or simply because minority physicians are more conveniently …

Although concerns have been expressed that mortality from coronary disease and all other
causes is greater among Blacks than Whites, we hypothesized that, when socioeconomic …

For decades data have been collected comparing health care in racial and ethnic groups.
The use of such groups in health services research assumes that standard, reliable, and …

Disparities in health can result from the clinical encounter between a doctor and a patient.
This paper studies three possible mechanisms: prejudice of doctors in the form of being less …