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Our objective is to estimate the extent to which clinical and non-clinical factors are associated with physicians’ prescribing patterns for statins. The data are from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey for the period 1992 through 2004. The three samples examined included more than...
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Panel models are used to estimate the determinants of local revenues in Major League Baseball. This article updates a previous study by Burger and Walters (2003) with additional data and panel techniques. Consistent with their results, this study finds that market size does matter as a...
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The objective is to estimate the effect on one’s weight decades later of choosing a blue collar job as his/her initial job. OLS and probit models are estimated, using dummy variables for overweight and obesity as the dependent variables. Various two stage models treat occupational choice to be...
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Using a representative sample of US diabetes patients with comorbid hypertension and obesity, we estimate the determinants of health care expenditures. The hypothesis is that the presence of comorbid obesity and hypertension is associated with higher expenditures in the health care system. We...
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Anne Case et al. (2002), using cross-sectional data, found a positive relationship between children's health and income, with income's protective effect increasing with age. Janet Currie and Mark Stabile (2003), using a panel of Canadian children, found that low- and high-SES children respond...
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