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Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Pay Gap
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Zeltzer, Dan |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | ork w still — tors c o d U.S. e v acti of quarter a w o n — cians i ys h p emale F : Abstract puzzlingly less than their male counterparts. This paper suggests an explanation: gender homophily in referral networks (more same-gender referrals). I model the referral networks forming as doctors choose specialists, showing that homophily is explained by both biased preferences and sorting. I then suggest new ways to identify both types of biases in directed networks. Analyzing administrative data on more than 100 million Medicare physician referrals from 2008–2012, I find significant gender homophily, due mostly to preferences, not sorting. As most referrals are still made by men, homophily lowers demand for female specialists, explaining 10% of the average within-specialty workload gap, and contributing to the absence of women from lucrative specialties that rely on referrals from men. Results imply that increased participation of female physicians facilitates further integration into related specialties, and more broadly, that genderbiased interactions contribute to the propagation of occupational inequalities. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2017/preliminary/paper/fd5SdQ7y |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://portal.idc.ac.il/documents/economics_20.12.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/humsos/Econ/Documents/seminars/abstracts/December%2024%20-15.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
