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What Drives Individual Health Expenditure in Switzerland?

Bilger, Marcel; Chaze, Jean-Paul - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 144 (2008) III, pp. 337-358

The explanatory factors of individual healthcare consumption are studied by means of healthcare expenditures from the 2000–2005 Swiss Household Income and Expenditure Survey (SHIES). In order to tackle the issues of large number of null expenditures and skewed distribution of positive...

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Public vs private demand for covering long term care expenditures

Brau, R.; Bruni, M. Lippi; Pinna, AM. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2004

This paper studies the determinants of the willingness to pay (WTP) for long term care (LTC) coverage provided through either a public or a private insurance program. Two insurance services are considered, a first one compulsory and financed out through general taxes, another one purchased on a...

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Health care utilisation in Europe: new evidence from the ECHP

Teresa Bago d’Uva; Jones, Andrew M. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2006

The ECHP is used to analyse the utilisation of health care in Europe. We estimate a new latent class hurdle model for panel data and compare it with the latent class NegBin model and the standard hurdle model. Latent class specifications outperform the standard hurdle model but the latent class...

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Policy programmes only for a few? Participation in labour market programmes among Swedish disabled workers

Melkersson, Maria - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 1999

In a large sample of Swedish unemployed disabled workers, the workers participate in between zero and ten policy programmes during their unemployment spell. Clustering of programmes to about half of the sample is prominent. <p> The number of programmes is modelled as a standard count data model, as...</p>

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A modified hurdle model for completed fertility

Covas, Francisco; Silva, J.M.C. Santos - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 2, pp. 173-188

In this paper it is argued that models for completed fertility have to take into consideration that childless couples and couples with an only child are qualitatively different from couples with two or more children. Indeed, these differences may be the cause of the underdispersion that...

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Corporate Governance and Sectoral Patterns of Innovation: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Industries

Belloc, Filippo; laurenza, Eleonora; Rossi, Maria Alessandra - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2015

The paper explores the question whether the relationship between corporate governance dimensions and innovation at the firm level is affected by sectoral characteristics, by analyzing Italian manufacturing sectors. We estimate the impact of corporate governance features on patenting activity for...

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Testing the binomial fixed effects logit model; with an application to female labor supply

Winkelmann, Rainer; Xu, Lin - 2019

estimator under misspecification and derive a new test for overdispersion in the binomial fixed effects logit model. Models and …

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Testing the binomial fixed effects logit model; with an application to female labor supply

Winkelmann, Rainer; Xu, Lin - 2019

misspecification and derive a new test for overdispersion. Estimator and test are applied in a study of contracted working volumes …

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Estimation Procedures for Multinomial Models with Overdispersion

Newcomer, Justin Travis - 2008

The phenomenon of overdispersion arises when categorical or count data exhibit variability larger than expected … outlined in the GEE methodology. Although this accounts for overdispersion, we will show that these methods tend to provide … account for the overdispersion without overly inflating the standard errors. In particular, we apply this method for …

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Estimation Issues in Single Commodity Gravity Trade Models

Prehn, Soren; Brummer, Bernhard - 2011

Recently gravity trade models are applied to disaggregated trade data. Here manyzeros are characteristic. In the presence of excess zeros usual Poisson Pseudo MaximumLikelihood (PPML) is still consistent, the variance covariance matrix howeveris invalid. Correct economic interpretation however...

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