David
Zimmer
University
Distinguished Professor
Department of
Economics
Western Kentucky
University
Econ 499 information
Vita [ pdf ]
[webpage updated 2/2026]
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Publications
BOOK
· Copula Modeling: An Introduction for
Practitioners.
Now Publishers, 2007, Hanover,
MA. (with P.K. Trivedi)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
·
“Analysis of School Absenteeism for Single- vs
Two-Parent Families: A Finite Mixture Roy Approach.” Econometrics,
forthcoming. (with M. Munkin)
·
“The Long Run Effects of Recessions on
Fertility.” Review of Economics of the
Household, 2026, 24, 1-16.
·
“A Copula Based Method for Accommodating
Feedback in Random Effects Panel Models.” Empirical Economics, 2025, 69,
2093-2108.
·
“Performing in High Pressure Situations: The
Case of Tennis Players Up a Break and Serving for the Set.” Applied
Economics, 2025, 57,6138-6147. (with B. Goff and D. Wilson)
·
“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
· “Revisiting the
link between class size and academic performance using nonlinear quantile
regression.” (with D. Welsch)
· “Forecasting
spousal health care utilization using a copula based random effects panel
model.”
· “Predicting
County-Level Opioid Prescriptions Using Panel Data Models for Long-Tailed
Outcomes” (with D. Welsch)
· “Using Copulas to
Model Random Coefficients in Panel Data Settings.”
· “The Dynamic
Interdependency Between Opioid Prescriptions and Unemployment.” (with D.
Welsch)
· “Does Preventive
Care Reduce Usage of Curative Services?”
· “Pricing and
Market Concentration: A New Estimation Strategy” (with M. Doane, L. Froeb, and G. Werden) [download]
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