Two-part multiple spell models for health care demand

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-89

  Santos Silva, João M C ^a   Windmeijer, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Count data; Generalised method of moments; Hurdle models; Metric maximum likelihood estimator; Non para; Stopped sum distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346977301     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(01)00059-8     Document Type: Article

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