The economic determinants of specialty choice by medical residents.

Abstract:

:This paper analyzes how economic factors (relative expected earnings, relative expected hours worked, and relative length of training period) affect the distribution of medical residents across specialties. The results show that the percent of residents in a given specialty changes more than proportionately when relative hours change (hours elasticities averaged between -1.2 and -2.0) and less than proportionately when relative earnings change (earnings elasticities averaged between 0.3 and 0.6). Residents appear to be quite unresponsive to changes in the length of training period.

journal_name

J Health Econ

authors

McKay NL

doi

10.1016/0167-6296(90)90050-d

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-11-01 00:00:00

pages

335-57

issue

3

eissn

0167-6296

issn

1879-1646

pii

0167-6296(90)90050-D

journal_volume

9

pub_type

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