Imbalance in the health workforce is a major concern in both developed and developing
countries. It is a complex issue that encompasses a wide range of possible situations. This …

Increasingly, low-and middle-income countries are looking to community-based health
insurance (CBHI) as a means of ensuring access to health care for the poor. However, little …

" Introduction God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.-Kronecker. This book is
concerned with models of event counts. An event count refers to the number of times an …

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of microeconometrics, the
analysis of individual-level data on the economic behavior of individuals or firms using …

The “count data”? eld has further? ourished since the previous edition of this book was
published in 2003. The development of new methods has not slowed down by any means …

This article explores the copula approach for econometric modeling of joint parametric
distributions. Although theoretical foundations of copulas are complex, this paper …

Informal care by adult children is a common form of long-term care for older adults and can
reduce medical expenditures if it substitutes for formal care. We address how informal care …

Health Economics presents a systematic treatment of the economics of health behavior and
health care delivery. Appropriate both for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of …

In this article we develop a finite mixture negative binomial count model that accommodates
unobserved heterogeneity in an intuitive and analytically tractable manner. This model, the …

The decision to contact a physician and the decision about how often to contact a physician
are determined by different decisionmakers. We introduce a negative binomial distributed …