Specialty selection and lifetime returns to specialization within medicine

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-143

  Bhattacharya, Jayanta ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; TRAINING; WAGE DETERMINATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15944412130     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/jhr.xl.1.115     Document Type: Article

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