Download or read book Three Essays on Count Data Estimation Methods with Applications to Health Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this dissertation is to propose and estimate count data microeconometric models that take into account special features of health care data. Three problems in health economics are investigated. The first essay analyzes the effect of managed care insurance plans on the demand for outpatient physician visits. It provides a Bayesian method to empirically separate selection effects due to individual choice of coverage and incentive effects known as moral hazard. The proposed Endogenous Hurdle Poisson log-Normal model addresses two important econometric issues: the large proportion of zero outpatient visits and the endogeneity of managed care insurance status to utilization of outpatient services. The data are obtained from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, (MEPS), and the sample consists of privately insured individuals, aged 21-64, all of whom are employed but not self-employed. The analysis indicates both favorable selection bias and important moral hazard effects in the decision whether to utilize an outpatient visit or not. The second essay investigates the impact of health insurance coverage on utilization of doctor visits. A Bayesian panel count data model with correlated random effects and endogenous treatment of the insurance variable is applied to a subset of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a national longitudinal survey of individuals over 50 years old and their spouses. The age limit for Medicare eligibility at age 65 serves as an exclusion restriction. After controlling for selection effects insured individuals present higher utilization of doctor visits. The third essay analyzes the demand for cigarettes using data from the 1994-1996 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII). Since individuals tend to round their consumption of cigarettes in packs smoked per day the dependent variable - number of cigarettes - exhibits pile-ups of counts. The mixed binary-ordered probit approach accommodates this feature of the data and models the starting smoking, the quitting smoking and the how much to smoke decisions. The analysis is performed separately for men and women and provides strong evidence of gender differences in cigarette consumption.
Download or read book Three Essays in Health Econometrics written by Juan Du and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Simulation based Estimation of Multivariate Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity written by Murat Khairzhanuly Munkin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Microeconometrics written by A. Colin Cameron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-09 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of microeconometrics, the analysis of individual-level data on the economic behavior of individuals or firms using regression methods for cross section and panel data. The book is oriented to the practitioner. A basic understanding of the linear regression model with matrix algebra is assumed. The text can be used for a microeconometrics course, typically a second-year economics PhD course; for data-oriented applied microeconometrics field courses; and as a reference work for graduate students and applied researchers who wish to fill in gaps in their toolkit. Distinguishing features of the book include emphasis on nonlinear models and robust inference, simulation-based estimation, and problems of complex survey data. The book makes frequent use of numerical examples based on generated data to illustrate the key models and methods. More substantially, it systematically integrates into the text empirical illustrations based on seven large and exceptionally rich data sets.
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Download or read book Three Essays on Time Preference in Health Economics written by Philipp Maximilian Alexander Hübler and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Productivity and Inequality written by William H. Greene and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume highlights the state-of-the-art knowledge (including data analysis) of productivity, inequality and efficiency analysis. It showcases a selection of the best papers from the 9th North American Productivity Workshop. These papers are relevant to academia, but also to public and private sectors in terms of the challenges that firms, financial institutions, governments, and individuals may face when dealing with economic and education related activities that lead to increase or decrease of productivity. The volume also aims to bring together ideas from different parts of the world about the challenges those local economies and institutions may face when changes in productivity are observed. These contributions focus on theoretical and empirical research in areas including productivity, production theory and efficiency measurement in economics, management science, operation research, public administration, and education. The North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW) brings together academic scholars and practitioners in the field of productivity and efficiency analysis from all over the world, and this proceedings volume is a reflection of this mission. The papers in this volume also address general topics as education, health, energy, finance, agriculture, transport, utilities, and economic development, among others. The editors are comprised of the 2016 local organizers, program committee members, and celebrated guest conference speakers.
Download or read book Semiparametric Count Data Modeling with an Application to Health Service Demand written by Philipp Bach and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Application of Data Science in Health Economics written by Jugal Marfatia and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three papers which explore data science techniques to address issues in the field of health economics. The first paper, provides a novel investigation into the effectiveness of new and scalable machine learning models, LightGBM and XGBoost, to predict individual health care expenditures. In this paper, I find LightGBM and XGBoost outperform linear models, in terms of out-of-sample R2, by 5% to 8%. The paper also explores welfare implications in the insurance market resulting from widespread use of big data and scalable machine learning models by insurance providers.In paper 2, I study the heterogeneous effects of having a physical limitation on mental health across individuals in different income brackets. Results indicate that the negative effect of having a physical limitation on metal health is highest among individuals in the bottom 20% of the income distribution. Results from panel data analysis indicate that an increase in income has a greater positive impact on mental health among individuals with a physical limitation compared to the effect observed among individuals without a physical limitation.In paper 3, I estimate the causal effects of being enrolled in medicaid on mental and financial well being across individuals with and without pre-existing conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart condition, high cholesterol and cancer. In other words, I compare the bene- fits observed among individuals with pre-existing to the benefits observed among individuals without pre-existing condition using data from Oregon Medicaid Lottery. My results indicate that on average, across different measures of mental and financial health, benefits from medicaid observed among individuals with pre-existing conditions were lower or similar to the benefits observed among individuals without pre-existing conditions. On two key measures, undiagnosed depression and catastrophic health expenditures, the benefit from enrolling in medicaid was lower, statistically significant at the 90% confidence level, among individuals with a pre-existing condition compared to the benefits observed among individuals without a pre-existing condition.
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Download or read book Missing Data Methods written by David M. Drukker and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 16 chapters authored by specialists in the field, covering topics such as: Missing-Data Imputation in Nonstationary Panel Data Models; Markov Switching Models in Empirical Finance; Bayesian Analysis of Multivariate Sample Selection Models Using Gaussian Copulas; and, Consistent Estimation and Orthogonality.
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Download or read book Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data second edition written by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 1095 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of a comprehensive state-of-the-art graduate level text on microeconometric methods, substantially revised and updated. The second edition of this acclaimed graduate text provides a unified treatment of two methods used in contemporary econometric research, cross section and data panel methods. By focusing on assumptions that can be given behavioral content, the book maintains an appropriate level of rigor while emphasizing intuitive thinking. The analysis covers both linear and nonlinear models, including models with dynamics and/or individual heterogeneity. In addition to general estimation frameworks (particular methods of moments and maximum likelihood), specific linear and nonlinear methods are covered in detail, including probit and logit models and their multivariate, Tobit models, models for count data, censored and missing data schemes, causal (or treatment) effects, and duration analysis. Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data was the first graduate econometrics text to focus on microeconomic data structures, allowing assumptions to be separated into population and sampling assumptions. This second edition has been substantially updated and revised. Improvements include a broader class of models for missing data problems; more detailed treatment of cluster problems, an important topic for empirical researchers; expanded discussion of "generalized instrumental variables" (GIV) estimation; new coverage (based on the author's own recent research) of inverse probability weighting; a more complete framework for estimating treatment effects with panel data, and a firmly established link between econometric approaches to nonlinear panel data and the "generalized estimating equation" literature popular in statistics and other fields. New attention is given to explaining when particular econometric methods can be applied; the goal is not only to tell readers what does work, but why certain "obvious" procedures do not. The numerous included exercises, both theoretical and computer-based, allow the reader to extend methods covered in the text and discover new insights.
Download or read book Essays on Economic Evaluation in Health Economics written by Annemieke de Ridder and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to Modern Econometrics written by Marno Verbeek and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to Modern Econometrics, 5th Edition has become established as a highly successful textbook. It serves as a guide to alternative techniques in econometrics with an emphasis on intuition and the practical implementation of these approaches. This fifth edition builds upon the success of its predecessors. The text has been carefully checked and updated, taking into account recent developments and insights. It includes new material on causal inference, the use and limitation of p-values, instrumental variables estimation and its implementation, regression discontinuity design, standardized coefficients, and the presentation of estimation results.
Download or read book Social Science Research written by Anol Bhattacherjee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.
