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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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Improving precision in cost-effectiveness analysis using copulas.

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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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

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Optimal sequential sampling rules for the economic evaluation of health technologies

Pertile, Paolo; Forster, Martin; Torre, Davide La - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2010

Referring to the literature on optimal stopping under sequential sampling developed by Chernoff and collaborators, we solve a dynamic model of the economic evaluation of a new health technology, deriving optimal rules for technology adoption, research abandonment and continuation as functions of...

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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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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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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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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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Job satisfaction in Italy: Individual characteristics and social relations

Fiorillo, D; Nappo, N - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011

This paper investigates the determinants of job satisfaction in Italy with particular emphasis on social relations. Our econometric analysis is based on four waves (1993, 1995, 1998 and 2000) of the Multipurpose Household Survey conducted annually by the Italian Central Statistics Office. The...

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