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An empirical analysis of the demand for health using the European Community Household Panel

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorJiménez-Martín, Sergi
dc.contributor.authorLabeaga, José M.
dc.contributor.authorMartínez-Granado, Maite
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-10T11:12:48Z
dc.date.available2010-03-10T11:12:48Z
dc.date.issued2000-10
dc.description.abstractThis paper estimates demand for health equations using three waves of data from the European Community Household Panel. The economic model is a typical specification of Grossman's [1] proposal. The paper focuses on three specific points: i) the existence of two stages in the demand for health decision process (to contact a physician and how often to visit him). ii) the analysis of this double-hurdle process in different scenarios (visits to the general practitioners, the specialists and the dentists). iii) the analysis of differences across countries due to the differences on the coverage of the National Insurance Systems. The results suggest that the contact and frequency decisions of visits to either the general practitioner, the specialist or even the dentist are governed by different stochastic processes. As expected, we find some differences in the behaviour of men and women, mainly in the decisions to visit and the number of visits to specialist. We also show that the behavioural differences across countries are not extremely important, being perhaps income a determinant of the decision to contact and the intensity of the treatment in poor countries.
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dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/7226
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUC3M Working papers. Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries2000-67-25
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.otherCount data
dc.subject.otherPoisson
dc.subject.otherNegbin hurdle model
dc.titleAn empirical analysis of the demand for health using the European Community Household Panel
dc.typeworking paper*
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