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Health expenditures and insurance plans
Description
Data from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. The data comes from Deb and Trivedi (2002). It includes variables on the number of contacts with a medical doctor, medical expenditures, demographics, health status, and insurance status. Cameron and Trivedi (2005).
Usage
randhealth
Format
A data frame with 20,190 observations and 45 variables:
- plan
health insurance plan number
- site
one of six sites where experiment was conducted
- coins
medical coinsurance
- tookphys
took baseline physical
- year
study year
- zper
person id, leading digit is sit
- black
= 1 if race of household head is black
- income
income based on annual income
- xage
age that year
- female
= 1 if person is female
- educdec
years of schooling of decision maker
- time
time eligible during the year
- outpdol
outpatient exp. excl. ment and
- drugdol
drugs purchased, outpatient
- suppdol
supplies purchased, outpatient
- mentdol
psychotherapy exp., outpatient
- inpdol
inpatient exp., facilities and md
- meddol
annual medical expenditures in constant dollars, excluding dental and outpatient mental
- totadm
number of hospital admissions
- inpmis
missing any inpatient charges
- mentvis
number psychotehrapy visits
- mdvis
number face-to-face md visits
- notmdvis
number face-to-face, not md visits
- num
family size
- mhi
mental health index, baseline
- disea
number of chronic diseases
- physlm
= 1 if person has physical limitation
- ghindx
general health index, baseline
- mdeoff
maximum expenditure offer
- pioff
participation incentive
- child
= 1 if age is less than 18
- fchild
= 1 if female child
- lfam
log of family size
- lpi
log of annual participation incentive payment or 0 if no payment
- idp
= 1 if individual deductible plan
- logc
log(coinsurance + 1) where coinsurance rate is 0 to 100
- fmde
log(max(medical deductible expenditure)) if idp=1 and mde>1, 0 otherwise
- hlthg
= 1 if self-rated health is good
- hlthf
= 1 if self-rated health is fair
- hlthp
= 1 if self-rated health is poor, (omitted is excellent)
- xghindx
ghi with imputation
- linc
log of annual family income, usd
- lnum
log of family size
- lnmeddol
log of medical expenditures given meddol > 0; missing otherwise
- binexp
= 1 if medical expenditures > 0
Section in Text
16.6 Selection Models, pp. 553-6, 565 20.3 Count Example: Contacts with Medical Doctor, p.671
Source
http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/mmabook/mmadata.html
References
Cameron, A. and Trivedi, P. (2005), "Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications," Cambridge University Press, New York.
Deb, P. and Trivedi, P.K. (2002), "The Structure of Demand for Health Care: Latent Class versus Two-Part Models," Journal of Health Economics, 21, 601-625.
RAND Corporation. "RAND's Health Insurance Experiment ." https://www.rand.org/health-care/projects/hie.html
Examples
summary(randhealth)