Getting the Right Tail Right: Modeling Tails of Health Expenditure Distributions
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- Karlsson, Martin & Wang, Yulong & Ziebarth, Nicolas R., 2024. "Getting the right tail right: Modeling tails of health expenditure distributions," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
- Karlsson, Martin & Wang, Yulong & Ziebarth, Nicolas R., 2023. "Getting the Right Tail Right: Modeling tails of health expenditure distributions," ZEW Discussion Papers 23-045, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
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- C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - General
- C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ECM-2023-08-14 (Econometrics)
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