doctorvisits: Number of visits to doctor

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Number of visits to doctor

Description

The number of visits of German women to a physician during the most recent three month period.

Usage

doctorvisits

Format

A data frame with 2227 rows and 14 variables:

numvisit

number of visits to a doctor

reform

a dummy for the 1997 health reform, 1 = interviewed after reform

badh

a dummy for bad health (=1)

age

age in years

educ

number of school years

loginc

log of household income in DM

edu

education level

educ1

dummy for 7–10.5 years of education

educ2

dummy for 10.5–12 years of education

educ3

dummy for >12 years of education

age1

dummy for 20-39 years

age2

dummy for 40–49 years

age3

dummy for 50-60 years

Source

Riphahn, R., Wambach, A., Million, A., 2003. Incentive effects in the demand for health care: a bivariate panel count data estimation. Journal of Applied Econometrics 18 (4), 387–405.

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