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Health Insurance and Doctor Visits
Description
observations of 401 individuals
number of observations : 20186
country : United States
economic topic : Health Economics
econometrics topic : censored dependant variable
Usage
data(HealthIns)Format
A time serie containing :
- id
the individual index
- year
the year
- med
medical expenses
- mdu
number of face-to face medical visits
- coins
coinsurance rate
- disease
count of chronic diseases
- sex
a factor with level
'male'and'female'- age
the age
- size
the size of the family
- child
a factor with levels
'no'and'yes'
Source
Manning, W. G., J. P. Newhouse, N. Duan, E. B. Keeler and A. Leibowitz (1987) “Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment”, American Economic Review, 77(3), 251-277.
Deeb P. , and P.K. Trivedi (2002) “The structure of demand for medical care: latent class versus two-part models”, Journal of Health Economics, 21, 601-625..
References
http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/musbook/mus.html.