David Zimmer
Vita
[ pdf ]
[webpage updated 2/2024]
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Contact Information
Western Kentucky University
Department
of Economics
Bowling
Green, KY 42101
Email:
david.zimmer [at sign] wku
[dot] edu
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Publications
BOOK
· Copula
Modeling: An Introduction for Practitioners.
Now
Publishers, 2007, Hanover, MA. (with P.K. Trivedi)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
·
“A
Unifying Switching Regime Regression Framework with Applications in Health
Economics.”
Econometric Reviews, 2024, 43, 52-70. (with G. Marra and R. Radice)
·
“The
Effects of Infant Daycare on Later-in-Life Employment Outcomes.”
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2024, 83, 143-156.
· “The Effects of Absent Fathers on
Adolescent Criminal Activity: An Economic Approach.”
Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, 89, 85-103.
·
“Estimating the Impact of Medical Care Usage on
Work Absenteeism by a Trivariate Probit
Model with Two Binary Endogenous Explanatory Variables.”
AStA Advances
in Statistical Analysis, 2023,
107, 713-731. (with P. Filippou, G. Marra, and R. Radice)
·
“The
Effect of Food Stamps on Fiber Intake.”
Economic Issues, 2023, 28, 71-86.
·
“Did
Subsidies Included in the 2009 Stimulus Package Encourage Enrollment in COBRA?”
Fiscal Studies, 2022, 43, 405-419. [dataappendix]
· “The Effect of Flood Mitigation Spending on
Flood Damage: Accounting for Dynamic Feedback.”
Ecological Economics, 2022, 192, 107273. (with D. Welsch and M. Winden)
· “On the Dynamic Interdependency of
Unemployment and COVID Deaths.”
Economic Issues, 2022, 27, 1-9. (with D. Welsch)
· “Investigating the Dynamic Interdependency
between Poverty and Marital Separation.”
Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 1-16.
· “Did the ACA's ‘Guaranteed Issue’ Provision
Cause Adverse Selection into Nongroup Insurance? Analysis using a Copula-Based
Hurdle Model.”
Health
Economics, 2021, 30, 2246-2263.
(with G. Marra and R. Radice)
· “The Effect of Job Displacement on Mental
Health, When Mental Health Feeds Back to Future Job Displacement.”
Quarterly Review of Economics and
Finance, 2021, 79, 360-366.
· “Estimating the Binary Endogenous Effect of
Insurance on Doctor Visits by Copula-Based Regression Additive Models.”
Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society: Series C, 2020,
69, 953-971. (with G. Marra and R. Radice)
· “The Effect of Management Changes on
Winning in Professional Sports: Analysis Using a Dynamic Lag Adjustment Model.”
Managerial and Decision Economics,
2019, 40, 982-992. (with B. Goff and D. Wilson)
· “The Effect of Hearing Impairments on Wage
Earnings: Evidence from a Copula-Based Spline Selection Model.”
Labour, 2019, 33, 147-161.
· “The Accuracy of Self-Reported Smoking among
Blacks.”
Review of Black Political Economy, 2018, 45, 166-180.
· “Using Copulas to Estimate the Coefficient of
a Binary Endogenous Regressor in a Poisson Regression: Application to the
Effect of Insurance on Doctor Visits.”
Health Economics, 2018, 27, 545-556.
· “Do High School Gifted Programs Lead to
Later-in-Life Success?”
Journal of Labor Research, 2018, 39, 201-218. (with D. Welsch)
· “Did the Demand for Crestor Shrink when
Lipitor’s Patent Expired?”
Journal of Industry, Competition and
Trade, 2018, 18,
139-149.
· “The Heterogeneous Impact of Insurance on
Health Care Demand Among Young Adults: A Panel Data Analysis.”
Journal of Applied Statistics, 2018, 45, 1277-1291.
· ”Hertz-Dollar Thrift: Fixing a Merger to
Avoid Litigation.”
In The Antitrust Revolution: Economics,
Competition, and Policy (7th Edition),
Edited by J.E. Kwoka and L.J. White, 2018, pp.
87-102. Oxford University Press: New York. (with M. Doane,
L. Froeb, and G. Werden)
· “Is the ACA Bringing the Family
Back Together (for Tax Purposes?) Investigating the Dependent Coverage Mandate
Effect on Dependent Tax Exemptions.”
Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15, 1159-1176. (with
D. Shane)
· “Movies, Mass Consumers, and Critics: Economics
and Politics of a Two-Sided Market.”
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017, 35, 269-277. (with B. Goff and D.
Wilson)
· “A Note on Identification of Bivariate
Copulas for Discrete Count Data.”
Econometrics, 2017, 5, 1-11. (with P. Trivedi)
· “What Percent of the U.S. Population is
Predisposed Toward High Cholesterol?”
International Journal of Cardiology, 2016, 214, 90-91.
· “Crop Price Comovements
during Extreme Market Downturns.”
Australian Journal of Agricultural and
Resource Economics, 2016, 60,
265-283.
· “The Dynamic Relationship between School Size
and Academic Performance: An Investigation of Elementary Schools in Wisconsin.”
Research in Economics, 2016, 70, 158-169. (with D. Welsch)
· “Analyzing Comovements
in Housing Prices using Vine Copulas.”
Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53, 1156-1169.
· “Asymmetric Dependence in Housing Prices:
Evidence from U.S. and International Data.”
Empirical Economics, 2015, 49, 161-183.
·
“Does COBRA Reduce the Probability that Job
Separators Return to Work?”
Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2015, 18, 326-340.
· “Employment Effects of Health
Shocks: The Role of Fringe Benefits.”
Bulletin of Economic Research, 2015, 67, 346-358.
· “The Relationship between
Student Transfers and District Academic Performance: Accounting for Feedback
Effects.”
Education Finance and Policy, 2015, 10, 399-422. (with D. Welsch)
· “Time-Varying Correlation in Housing Prices.”
Journal of Real Estate Finance and
Economics, 2015, 51,
86-100.
· “The Effect of Medicare Part D on
Prescription Drug Composition Demand.”
Journal of Economic Studies, 2015, 42, 170-185.
· “Why
do Movie Studios Produce R-rated Films?”
Applied Economics and Finance, 2015, 2, 33-43. (with B. Goff and D. Wilson)
· “Cost-offsets of Prescription
Drug Expenditures: Data Analysis via a Copula-based Bivariate Dynamic Hurdle
Model.”
Health Economics, 2014, 23, 1242-1259. (with P. Deb and P.
Trivedi)
[Previously
circulated as NBER Working Paper #15191]
· “Success at the Summer Olympics: How Much Do
Economic Factors Explain?”
Econometrics, 2014, 2, 169-202. (with P. Trivedi)
· “Intertemporal Persistence in Health Care
Spending and Utilization: The Role of Insurance.”
Journal of Applied Statistics, 2013, 40, 1044-1063.
· “Does COBRA's Retroactive Coverage Feature
Encourage Delayed Enrollment?”
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31, 135-144.
· “Analysis of Mixed Outcomes in Econometrics:
Applications in Health Economics.”
In Analysis of Mixed Data: Methods
and Applications,
Edited by A.R. de Leon and K.C. Chough, 2013, pp. 157-172. CRC Press:
New York.
· “The Role of Copulas in the Housing Crisis.”
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94, 607-620.
· “Do Student Migrations Affect School
Performance? Evidence from Wisconsin’s Inter-District Public School Program.”
Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 195-207. (with D. Welsch)
·
“The Relationship between Medicare Supplemental Insurance and Health Care
Spending: Selection Across Multiple Dimensions.”
Eastern Economic Journal, 2012, 38,
118-133.
·
“Family
Asthma and Maternal Labor Supply.”
Journal of Economics, 2012, 38, 49-63. (with C. Strow)
·
“The Dependence Structure of Income
Distribution.”
Applied Economics, 2012, 44, 3573-3583. (with Y. Kim)
·
“The Effects of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program on
Insurance Status and Health Care Utilization of Children.”
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2011, 32, 373-383.
· “Medical Savings Accounts and Preventative
Health Care Utilization.”
Journal of Economics and Management,
2011, 7, 1-22. (with J. Cress)
· “State
Dependence Among the Uninsured: Accounting for Feedback to Health and
Employment.”
Forum for Health Economics & Policy,
2010, 13: 2 (Health Economics), Article 4.
· “The Effect of Double Coverage on Health Care
Utilization of Children.”
Applied Economics, 2010, 42,
3105-3117.
· “Health Insurance and Health Care Demand
Among the Self-Employed.”
Journal of Labor Research, 2010, 31,
1-19.
· “The Role of Health Insurance in Labor Supply
Decisions of Divorced Females.”
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2010, 50, 121-131.
· “The Effect of Health and Poverty on Early
Childhood Cognitive Development.”
Atlantic Economic Journal, 2010, 38,
37-49. (with D. Welsch)
· “Racial Differences in Health Care
Utilization: Analysis by Intensity of Demand.”
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2009, 27,
475-490. (with X. Zheng)
· “Pitfalls in Modeling Dependence Structures:
Explorations with Copulas.”
In The Methodology and Practice of Econometrics: A
Festschrift in Honour of David F. Hendry,
Edited
by J.L. Castle and N. Shephard, 2009, pp. 149-172. Oxford University Press: New
York. (with P.K. Trivedi)
· “Modeling Bivariate Count Distributions with
Finite Mixture Models: Application to Health Care Demand of Married Couples.”
Applied Economics, 2009, 1-7. (with X.
Zheng)
· “Insurance Arrangements Among Married
Couples: Analysis of Benefit Substitution and Compensating Differentials.”
Journal of Family and Economic Issues,
2009, 30, 428-439.
· “After-School Supervision and Children's
Cognitive Achievement.”
The
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2008, 8, (Topics), Article
49. (with D. Welsch)
· “Farmers’ Health Insurance and Access to
Health Care.”
American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
2008, 90, 267-279. (with X. Zheng)
· “The Effect of the Consolidated Omnibus
Reconciliation Act of 1985 on Health Care Utilization of Employment
Separators.”
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &
Policy, 2008, 8, (Contributions), Article 2.
· “Asymmetric Effects of Marital Separation on
Health Insurance Among Men and Women.”
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2007, 25,
92-106.
· “Child Health and Maternal Work Activity: The
Role of Unobserved Heterogeneity.”
Eastern Economic Journal, 2007, 33,
43-64.
· “Using Trivariate
Copulas to Model Sample Selection and Treatment Effects: Application to Family
Health Care Demand.”
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics,
2006, 24, 63-76. (with P.K. Trivedi)
· “The Effect of Managed Care on Use of
Healthcare Services: Results from Two Contemporary Household Surveys.”
Health Economics, 2006, 15, 743-760.
(with P. Deb, C. Li, and P.K. Trivedi)
· “The Effect of Switching Private Insurance
Plans on Health Care Utilization.”
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &
Policy, 2006, 5, (Contributions), Article 22. (with F. Liu)
· “Modeling the Differences in Counted Outcomes
Using Bivariate Copula Models with Application to Mismeasured
Counts.”
Econometrics Journal, 2004, 7, 566-584.
(with A.C. Cameron, T. Li, and P.K. Trivedi)
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Works in progress
· “The Dynamic Interdependency Between Opioid
Prescriptions and Unemployment.” (with D. Welsch)
· “The Log Run Effects of Recessions on
Fertility.” [download]
· “Performing in High Leverage Situations: The
Case of Tennis Players Up a Break and Serving for the Set.”
· “A Copula-Based Finite Mixture Sample
Selection Model: Application to the Effects of Hearing Problems on Female Wage
Earnings.” [download]
· “Does Preventive Care Reduce Usage of
Curative Services?” [download]
· “Pricing and Market Concentration: A New
Estimation Strategy” (with M. Doane, L. Froeb, and G. Werden) [download]
· “The Dynamic Relationship
between Health and Health Insurance in the U.S.” [download]
· “Inequality in Durations of Insurance Loss
Following Employment Disruption.” [download]
· “Does Health Insurance Always Increase Health
Spending? Evidence on Distributional Effects from Inpatient Hospital Stays”
(with D. Shane) [download]
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