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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits—an econometric analysis (r...
This paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the... -
Nonparametric analysis of returns to scale in the US hospital industry (repli...
This paper presents new estimates of scale economies for US hospitals. We show that the common translog specification of hospital costs is a misspecification, and employ... -
Keeping off the grass? An econometric model of cannabis consumption in Britai...
This paper presents estimates of a dynamic individual-level model of cannabis consumption, using data from a 1998 survey of young people in Britain. The econometric model is a... -
Predictor relevance and extramarital affairs (replication data)
We revisit Fair's (1978) theory of extramarital affairs using robust nonparametric methods developed for the analysis of categorical data. We find evidence suggesting that the... -
The dynamics of health in the British Household Panel Survey (replication data)
This paper considers the dynamics of a categorical indicator of self-assessed health using eight waves (1991-1998) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Our analysis has...
