TY - JOUR
T1 - Market structure and gender disparity in health care
T2 - Preferences, competition, and quality of care
AU - Mcdevitt, Ryan C.
AU - Roberts, James W.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - We consider the relationship between market structure and health outcomes in a setting where patients have stark preferences: urology patients disproportionately match with a urologist of the same gender. In the United States, however, fewer than 6% of urologists are women despite women constituting 30% of patients. We explain a portion of this disparity with a model of imperfect competition in which urology groups strategically differentiate themselves by employing female urologists. These strategic effects may influence women's health, as markets without a female urologist have a 7.3% higher death rate for female bladder cancer, all else equal.
AB - We consider the relationship between market structure and health outcomes in a setting where patients have stark preferences: urology patients disproportionately match with a urologist of the same gender. In the United States, however, fewer than 6% of urologists are women despite women constituting 30% of patients. We explain a portion of this disparity with a model of imperfect competition in which urology groups strategically differentiate themselves by employing female urologists. These strategic effects may influence women's health, as markets without a female urologist have a 7.3% higher death rate for female bladder cancer, all else equal.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84897869922
U2 - 10.1111/1756-2171.12044
DO - 10.1111/1756-2171.12044
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84897869922
SN - 0741-6261
VL - 45
SP - 116
EP - 139
JO - RAND Journal of Economics
JF - RAND Journal of Economics
IS - 1
ER -