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Health in the cities: when the neighborhood matters more than income

Bilger, M.; Carrieri. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011

Using a rich Italian cross-sectional data set, we estimate the effect of a neighborhood quality index based on pollution, crime, and noise on self-assessed health, presence of chronic conditions and limitations in daily activities. We address the self-selection of the residents in their...

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Using copulas to estimate reduced-form systems of equations

Quinn, Casey - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007

demonstrates a rank-based dependence measure - the copula - that is invariant to both the scale and any monotonic transformations … of its dimensions. Accordingly, the copula measure of association between health and income is robust under different … cardinal scales for health as well as different income distributions, and can be used for ordering countries. The copula is …

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The health-economic applications of copulas: methods in applied econometric research

Quinn, Casey - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007

A copula is best described, as in Joe (1997), as a multivariate distribution function that is used to bind each … marginal distribution function to form the joint. The copula parameterises the dependence between the margins, while the … between the copula methodology and existing alternatives are discussed, and a generalisable, systematic approach to estimation …

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Improving precision in cost-effectiveness analysis using copulas.

Quinn, Casey - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007

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Use of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self-selection: An application in breast cancer patients

Basu, Anirban; Heckman, James J.; Navarro-Lozano, Salvador - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007

Instrumental variables methods (IV) are widely used in the health economics literature to adjust for hidden selection biases in observational studies when estimating treatment effects. Less attention has been paid in the applied literature to the proper use of instrumental variables if treatment...

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The effect of private health insurance on medical care utilization and self-assessed health in Germany

P, Hullegie; TJ, Klein - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is universal, co-payments and deductables are moderate, and premia are based on income. However, they may buy private insurance instead if their income exceeds the compulsory...

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Measuring the effects of removing subsidies for private insurance on public expenditure for health care

Chai Cheng, T. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of removing subsidies for private health insurance on public sector expenditure for hospital care. An econometric framework using simultaneous equation models is developed to analyse the interrelated decisions on the intensity and type of health care use and...

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What Drives Differences in Health Care Demand? The Role of Health Insurance and Selection Bias.

Shane, Dan; Trivedi, Pravin - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012

This paper employs an econometric model to parse dierences in health care utilization attributable to private health insurance and differences due to self-selection into insurance status, with specifc interest in selection on unobservable traits such as insurance preference or attitude toward...

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Demand for hospital care and private health insurance in a mixed publicprivate system: empirical evidence using a simultaneous equation modeling approach

Chai Cheng, T; Vahid, F - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of hospital stay intensity, the decision to seek hospital care as a public or private patient and the decision to purchase private hospital insurance. We describe a theoretical model to motivate the simultaneous nature of these decisions. For the empirical...

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Social interactions in inappropriate behavior for childbirth services: Theory and evidence from the Italian hospital sector

Guccio, C.; Lisi, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2014

Over the last decades the role of social interactions has become increasingly important in the economic discussion and, by now, it is acknowledged that the interaction across agents can produce both positive and negative effects. In this paper we evaluate the role of social interactions in the...

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