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Copula bivariate probit models: with an application to medical expenditures

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  • Rainer Winkelmann

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The bivariate probit model is frequently used for estimating the effect of an endogenous binary regressor (the "treatment") on a binary health outcome variable. This paper discusses simple modifications that maintain the probit assumption for the marginal distributions while introducing non-normal dependence using copulas. In an application of the copula bivariate probit model to the effect of insurance status on the absence of ambulatory health care expen- diture, a model based on the Frank copula outperforms the standard bivariate probit model.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics - University of Zurich in its series ECON - Working Papers with number 029.

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Keywords: Bivariate probit; binary endogenous regressor; Frank copula; Clayton copula;

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  • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior

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  1. Keay, Myoung-Jin, 2016. "Partial copula methods for models with multiple discrete endogenous explanatory variables and sample selection," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 85-87.
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