The Economics of Health and Vitamin Consumption
in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
March 2013; p ublished online November 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Household Behaviour and Family Economics; Economics of Health; Single Equation Models; Single Variables. 9226 words.
We estimate the impact of vitamin supplement intake, lifestyle, health indicators, food culture, and demographics on diet quality outcomes as measured by the Healthy Eating Index–2005...
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Household Out-of-Pocket Expenses on Health: Does Disease Type Matter?
in Journal of African Economies
March 2015; p ublished online February 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Economics of Health; Single Equation Models; Single Variables; Agricultural Economics. 9717 words.
This study uses new household data from Burkina Faso and regression analysis to further our understanding of household behaviour in relation to health care systems. We model the household...
Inference for Extremal Conditional Quantile Models, with an Application to Market and Birthweight Risks
in The Review of Economic Studies
April 2011; p ublished online March 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Economics of Health; Single Equation Models; Single Variables; Corporate Governance. 11564 words.
Quantile regression (QR) is an increasingly important empirical tool in economics and other sciences for analysing the impact a set of regressors has on the conditional distribution of an...
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Measuring Inefficiency in Long-term Care Commissioning: Evidence from English Local Authorities
in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
June 2012; p ublished online June 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Economics of Health; Single Equation Models; Single Variables; Public Economics. 8853 words.
Using a stochastic frontier approach, this paper explores efficiency in the commissioning of publicly funded social services among 148 English Councils through a six-year panel database...
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