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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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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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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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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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Health Care Demand in the Presence of Discrete Price Changes

Gerfin, M.; Kaiser, B.; Schmid, C. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2014

Deductibles in health insurance generate nonlinear budget sets and dynamic incentives. This paper uses detailed individual claims data from a large Swiss insurance company to estimate the response in health care demand to the discrete price increase that is generated by resetting the deductible...

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Testing exogeneity of multinomial regressors in count data models: does two stage residual inclusion work?

Geraci, A.; Fabbri, D.; Monfardini, C. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2014

We study a simple exogeneity test in count data models with possibly endogenous multinomial treatment. The test is based on Two Stage Residual Inclusion 2SRI). Results from a broad Monte Carlo study provide novel evidence on important features of this approach in nonlinear settings. We find...

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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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