Macroeconomic effects on mortality revealed by panel analysis with nonlinear trends

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1362-1385

  Ionides, Edward L ^a   Wang, Zhen ^a   Granados, José A Tapia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Health economics; Model misspecification; Mortality; Panel data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885037779     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-AOAS624     Document Type: Article

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