Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2014-01), pp. 41-53
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may...