The Educational Pipeline for Health Care Professionals
研究黑人群体在医疗保健职业中代表性不足的问题，通过联合建模教育决策链（入学、大学类型、学位完成、职业选择），发现大学前因素和完整教育链条对理解种族差异至关重要。
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.