Kristiansen, Ida Lykke; Sheng, Yanying - 2022
the SES inequality in health. We measure physicians' SES by their childhood SES and find that SES concordance decreases … low-SES patients' mortality, while high-SES patients' mortality does not depend on their physicians' background. Together …, they translate to a 24% reduction in the SES-mortality gradient. SES concordance changes the health behavior of the patient …