Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/169118 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
HCHE Research Paper No. 15
Publisher: 
University of Hamburg, Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE), Hamburg
Abstract: 
Heterogeneous effects are prevalent in many economic settings. As the functional form between outcomes and regressors is generally unknown a priori, a semiparametric negative binomial count data model is proposed which is based on the local likelihood approach and generalized product kernels. The local likelihood framework allows to leave unspecified the functional form of the conditional mean, while still exploiting basic assumptions of count data models (i.e. non-negativity). Since generalized product kernels allow to simultaneously model discrete and continuous regressors, the curse of dimensionality is substantially reduced. Hence, the applicability of the proposed estimator is increased, for instance in estimation of health service demand where data is frequently mixed. An application of the semiparametric estimator to simulated and real-data from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment provide results on its performance in terms of prediction and estimation of incremental effects.
Subjects: 
semiparametric regression
nonparametric regression
count data
mixed data
health care demand
JEL: 
C14
C21
I13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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