AER (version 0.2-2)

HealthInsurance: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data

Description

Cross-section data originating from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey survey conducted in 1996.

Usage

data("HealthInsurance")

source

Online complements to Stock and Watson (2007).

http://wps.aw.com/aw_stock_ie_2/0,12040,3332253-,00.html

Details

This is a subset of the data used in Perry and Rosen (2004).

References

Perry, C. and Rosen, H.S. (2004). The Self-Employed are Less Likely than Wage-Earners to Have Health Insurance. So What? in Holtz-Eakin, D. and Rosen, H.S. (eds.), Entrepeneurship and Public Policy, MIT Press.

Stock, J.H. and Watson, M.W. (2007). Introduction to Econometrics, 2nd ed. Boston: Addison Wesley.

See Also

StockWatson2007

Examples

data("HealthInsurance")
summary(HealthInsurance)
prop.table(xtabs(~ selfemp + insurance, data = HealthInsurance), 1)