Health care utilization and self-assessed health: Specification of bivariate models using copulas

Empirical Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 447-472

  Murteira, José M R ^a,b   Lourenço, Óscar D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Copulas; Discrete data; Endogeneity; Health care utilization; Self assessed health

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH CARE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODELING; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052367159     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-010-0382-7     Document Type: Article

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