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Multivariate Fractional Regression Estimation of Econometric Share Models
Mullahy, John - 2010
proposed by Papke and Wooldridge, 1996, 2008, in univariate cross-sectional and panel contexts. The paper discusses the … econometric strategies for share model estimation. The paper then goes on to discuss the univariate fractional regression … estimation strategies proposed by Papke and Wooldridge and to extend the fractional regression approach to estimation of and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462302
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The Impact of State Taxes on Self-Insurance
Ke, Bin - 1999
This paper assesses whether insurers' state taxes reduce purchases of property-casualty coverage. Tests are conducted using state aggregates of insurer-level data from publicly-available, annual accounting reports for 1993, 1994, and 1995. A positive relation between self-insurance and state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471330
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Health Insurance and the Obesity Externality
Bhattacharya, Jay - 2005
Expenditure Panel Survey, we estimate that, in a health plan with a coinsurance rate of 17.5%, the obesity externality imposes a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467150
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The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases
Goldman, Dana P. - 2003
This paper examines how compensation packages change when health insurance premiums rise. We use data on employee choices within a single large firm with a flexible benefits plan; an increasingly common arrangement among medium and large firms. In these companies, employees explicitly choose how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469160
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Home Equity Insurance
Shiller, Robert J. - 1994
Home equity insurance policies, policies insuring homeowners against declines in the price of their homes, would bear some resemblance both to ordinary insurance and to financial hedging vehicles. A menu of choices for the design of such policies is presented here, and conceptual issues are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474085
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The Accident Externality from Trucking
Muehlenbachs, Lucija - 2017
The presence of a heavy truck on the road can impose an externality if accidents occur that would not have otherwise. We find each additional truck on the road increases the risk of a truck accident--but also, at an even higher rate, the risk of a car-on-car collision. Our estimates imply two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453920
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The Impact of Market Size and Composition on Health Insurance Premiums : Evidence from the First Year of the ACA
Dickstein, Michael J. - 2015
Under the Affordable Care Act, individual states have discretion in how they define coverage regions, within which insurers must charge the same premium to buyers of the same age, family structure, and smoking status. We exploit variation in these definitions to investigate whether the size of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457759
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Sparse Network Asymptotics for Logistic Regression
Graham, Bryan S. - 2020
Consider a bipartite network where <i>N</i> consumers choose to buy or not to buy <i>M</i> different products. This paper considers the properties of the logistic regression of the <i>N</i> × <i>M</i> array of "i-buys-j" purchase decisions, <i>[Y<sub>ij</sub>]<sub>1≤i≤N,≤j≤M</sub></i>, onto known functions of consumer and product attributes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482182
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A Panel Regression Approach to Holdings-based Fund Performance Measures
Ferson, Wayne E. - 2020
Portfolio performance measures using holdings data are panel regressions. The returns of a fund's stocks are regressed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482457
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Housing Precarity & the COVID-19 Pandemic : Impacts of Utility Disconnection and Eviction Moratoria on Infections and Deaths Across US Counties
Jowers, Kay; Timmins, Christopher; Bhavsar, Nrupen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. Our analysis quantifies the impact of these various economic policies on COVID-19 infection and death rates using panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482612