Where Do Doctors Work? Medical School Access and the Rural Physician Shortage
Abstract
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.
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Adam Shumway
PhD candidate in Economics
Welcome to my website! I am Adam Shumway, a PhD candidate in economics at Cornell University. I am a labor economist with interests in historical datasets and occupational licensing (especially health-related professions). My current research uses physician directories from the past 100 years to study the rural physician shortage.