More health care utilization with more insurance Coverage? Evidence from a latent class model with German data

Applied Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 4455-4468

  Schmitz, Hendrik ^a  

^a RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Count data; Deductibles; Health insurance; Latent class panel model; Supplementary insurance

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; INCOME; MODELING; PANEL DATA;

EID: 80052052729     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.591733     Document Type: Article

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