RandHIE: RAND Health Insurance Experiment
Description
'The RAND Health Insurance Experiment (RAND HIE) was a comprehensive study
of health care cost, utilization and outcome in the United States.
It is the only randomized study of health insurance,
and the only study which can give definitive evidence as to the causal effects
of different health insurance plans.
[...]
Although the fieldwork of the study was conducted between 1974 and 1982,
the results are still highly relevant,
since RAND HIE is the only study which can make causal statements.'
(Wikipedia, RAND Health Insurance Experiment, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RAND_Health_Insurance_Experiment&oldid=110166949, accessed April 8, 2007).source
Data sets of Cameron and Trivedi (2005),
http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/mmabook/mmadata.html.
Additional information of variables
from Table 20.4 of Cameron and Trivedi (2005)
and from Newhouse (1999).References
Cameron, A. C. and Trivedi, P. K. (2005)
Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications,
Cambridge University Press.
Newhouse, J. P. (1999)
RAND Health Insurance Experiment [in Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan
Areas of the {United} {States}], 1974--1982,
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research,
Aggregated Claims Series,
Volume 1: Codebook for Fee-for-Service Annual Expenditures and Visit Counts,
ICPSR 6439.
Wikipedia, RAND Health Insurance Experiment,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Health_Insurance_Experiment.