Americans do not select their doctors based on race

To what extent do Americans racially discriminate against doctors? While a large literature shows that racial biases pervade the American healthcare system, there has been no systematic examination of these biases in terms of who patients select for medical treatment. We examine this question in the...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Sociology
Main Authors:	Reilly Olinger, Benjamin Matejka, Rohan Chakravarty, Margaret Johnston, Eliana Ornelas, Julia Draves, Nishi Jain, Jane Hentschel, William Owen, Yuchuan Ma, William Marx, Joshua Freitag, Nicholas Zhang, Cameron Guage, Charles Crabtree
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-01-01
Subjects:	discrimination doctors conjoint experiment experiment bias race
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1191080/full

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