How does the geographic distribution of medical schools spill over into the distribution of doctors? Using comprehensive physician listings from the American Medical Directory, I find that medical school location has a moderate effect on practice location. This has implications for addressing the rural physician shortage. Individual-level estimates also provide suggestive evidence that admitting more rural students is a viable policy lever to alleviate the rural physician shortage.

Past research has examined various state-level measures that predict state economic growth and other economic and social indicators. This research has largely ignored the potential role of family structure in contributing to state-level outcomes, despite the extensive literature on links between family structure and economic outcomes at the individual level. We estimated a state-level panel model and found that both the proportion of adults and the proportion of parents who are married are strongly related to important state-level economic outcomes, including economic growth, median household income, median personal income, and poverty.