health_ins: Health Insurance and Doctor Visits

In ycroissant/pglm: Panel Generalized Linear Models

Health Insurance and Doctor Visits

Description

a cross-section of 5908 individuals from 1974 to 1982

Format

a tibble containing:

• id: the individual index

• year: the year

• mdu: number of outpatient visits to an MD

• opu: number of outpation visits to all providers

• coins: coinsurance rate (0, 25, 50 or 100 percent)

• idp: if individual deductible plan: 1, otherwise 0

• lpi: log of the max of 1 and annual participation incentive payment

• fmde: if idp = 1: 0 otherwise ln of the max of 1 and MDE / (0.01 coins)

• income: family income

• size: family size

• age: the age

• sex: a factor with level 'male' and 'female'

• child: a factor with levels 'no' and 'yes'

• race: a factor with levels 'white' and 'black'

• health: self-rated health, a factor with levels poor, fair, good and verygood

• educ: education of the household head in years

• physlim: if the person has a physical limitation: 1

• disease: index of chronic diseases

Source

http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/musbook/mus.html

References

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