An econometric analysis of veterans' health care utilization using two-part models

Empirical Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 431-449

  Lahiri, Kajal ^a   Xing, Guibo ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurdle model; Inpatient and outpatient care; National Survey of Veterans; Negative Binomial count data model; Poisson seletion model; Veterans' Administration

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2942542549     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-003-0178-0     Document Type: Article

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