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In this paper it is argued that models for completed fertility have to take into consideration that childless couples and couples with an only child are qualitatively different from couples with two or more children. Indeed, these differences may be the cause of the underdispersion that...
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The demand for certain types of health care services depends on decisions of both the individual and the health care provider. This paper studies the conditions under which it is possible to separately identify the parameters driving the two decision processes using only count data on the total...
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present overdispersion and underdispersion in different levels of the observations. Two applications illustrate that the model …
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generalized log-gamma (GLG) distribution. This random effect accommodates (or captures) the overdispersion in the counts and …
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