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Data from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. The data comes from Deb and Trivedi (2002). It includes variables on the number of contacts with a medical doctor, medical expenditures, demographics, health status, and insurance status. Cameron and Trivedi (2005).
randhealth
A data frame with 20,190 observations and 45 variables:
health insurance plan number
one of six sites where experiment was conducted
medical coinsurance
took baseline physical
study year
person id, leading digit is sit
= 1 if race of household head is black
income based on annual income
age that year
= 1 if person is female
years of schooling of decision maker
time eligible during the year
outpatient exp. excl. ment and
drugs purchased, outpatient
supplies purchased, outpatient
psychotherapy exp., outpatient
inpatient exp., facilities and md
annual medical expenditures in constant dollars, excluding dental and outpatient mental
number of hospital admissions
missing any inpatient charges
number psychotehrapy visits
number face-to-face md visits
number face-to-face, not md visits
family size
mental health index, baseline
number of chronic diseases
= 1 if person has physical limitation
general health index, baseline
maximum expenditure offer
participation incentive
= 1 if age is less than 18
= 1 if female child
log of family size
log of annual participation incentive payment or 0 if no payment
= 1 if individual deductible plan
log(coinsurance + 1) where coinsurance rate is 0 to 100
log(max(medical deductible expenditure)) if idp=1 and mde>1, 0 otherwise
= 1 if self-rated health is good
= 1 if self-rated health is fair
= 1 if self-rated health is poor, (omitted is excellent)
ghi with imputation
log of annual family income, usd
log of family size
log of medical expenditures given meddol > 0; missing otherwise
= 1 if medical expenditures > 0
16.6 Selection Models, pp. 553-6, 565 20.3 Count Example: Contacts with Medical Doctor, p.671
http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/mmabook/mmadata.html
Cameron, A. and Trivedi, P. (2005), "Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications," Cambridge University Press, New York.
Deb, P. and Trivedi, P.K. (2002), "The Structure of Demand for Health Care: Latent Class versus Two-Part Models," Journal of Health Economics, 21, 601-625.
RAND Corporation. "RAND's Health Insurance Experiment ." https://www.rand.org/health-care/projects/hie.html
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