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Number of Doctor Visits
Description
a cross-section from 1986
number of observations : 485
observation : individuals
country : United States
Usage
data(Doctor)Format
A dataframe containing :
- doctor
the number of doctor visits
- children
the number of children in the household
- access
is a measure of access to health care
- health
a measure of health status (larger positive numbers are associated with poorer health)
Source
Gurmu, Shiferaw (1997) “Semiparametric estimation of hurdle regression models with an application to medicaid utilization”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12(3), 225-242.
References
Davidson, R. and James G. MacKinnon (2004) Econometric Theory and Methods, New York, Oxford University Press, chapter 11.
Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.
See Also
DoctorContacts,
DoctorAUS,
Index.Source,
Index.Economics,
Index.Econometrics,
Index.Observations