Atella, Vincenzo; Brindisi, Francesco; Deb, Partha; … - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2003
We examine access to general practitioners, public and private specialists in Italy. We develop a novel model using finite mixtures of probit models that provides a rich and flexible functional form. The mixed distribution is flexible and can accommodate non-normality of response probabilities....