Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland

By M. Alsan, O. Garrick, Grant Graziani. The American Economic Review, 2018

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We study the effect of physician workforce diversity on the demand for preventive care among African American men. In an experiment in Oakland, California, we randomize black men to black or non-black male medical doctors. We use a two-stage design, measuring decisions before (pre-consultation) and after (post-consultation) meeting their assigned doctor. Subjects select a similar number of preventives in the pre-consultation stage, but are much more likely to select every preventive service, particularly invasive services, once meeting with a racially concordant doctor. Our findings suggest black doctors could reduce the black-white male gap in cardiovascular mortality by 19 percent. (JEL I12, I14, C93)

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations (2019, background): “A recent trial randomly assigned Black patients to a Black or White primary care provider and found significantly higher uptake of recommended preventive carewhen the provider was Black (32).”