Health Insurance and Doctor Visits

Description

an unbalanced panel of 5908 individuals for 1 to 5 years

number of observations : 20186

observation : Individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(HealthIns)

Format

A dataframe containing :

id

the individual index,

year

the year,

med

medical expenses,

mdu

number of face-to face medical visits,

coins

coinsurance rate,

disease

count of chronic diseases,

sex

a factor with level 'male' and 'female',

age

the age,

size

the size of the family,

child

a factor with levels 'no' and 'yes'.

Source

Rand Health Insurance Experiment

References

Manning W. G., Newhouse J. P., Duan N., Keeler E. B. and Leibowitz A. (1987) : “Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment”, American Economic Review, 77(3), pp. 251-277.

Deb P. and P. K. Trivedi (2002) : “The structure of demand for medical care: latent class versus two-part models”, Journal of Health Economics, 21, pp. 601-625.

Cameron C. and P. K. Trivedi (2008) : Microeconometrics Using Stata, Stata Press.

Results