David
Zimmer
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Works in progress (some
downloadable)
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Teaching
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Vita [ pdf ]
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Profile on Google Scholar [ link ]
[webpage updated 7/2014]
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Contact Information
Western Kentucky University
Department of Economics
Bowling Green, KY 42101
Email: david.zimmer[at sign]wku.edu
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Publications
BOOK
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Copula Modeling: An
Introduction for Practitioners.
Now
Publishers, 2007, Hanover, MA. (with P.K. Trivedi)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
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“Analyzing Comovements in Housing
Prices using Vine Copulas.”
Economic
Inquiry, forthcoming.
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“Asymmetric Dependence in Housing Prices: Evidence from
U.S. and International Data.”
Empirical
Economics, forthcoming.
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“Time-Varying Correlation in Housing Prices.”
Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, forthcoming.
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“The Relationship
between Student Transfers and District Academic Performance: Accounting for
Feedback Effects.”
Education Finance and Policy, forthcoming. (with D. Welsch)
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“The Effect of Medicare Part D on Prescription Drug
Composition Demand.”
Journal
of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
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“Cost-offsets of
Prescription Drug Expenditures: Data Analysis via a Copula-based Bivariate
Dynamic Hurdle Model.”
Health
Economics, forthcoming. (with P. Deb and
P. Trivedi)
[Previously circulated as NBER Working Paper
#15191]
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“Employment
Effects of Health Shocks: The Role of Fringe Benefits.”
Bulletin
of Economic Research, forthcoming.
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“Intertemporal Persistence in
Health Care Spending and Utilization: The Role of Insurance.”
Journal
of Applied Statistics, forthcoming.
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“Does COBRA's Retroactive Coverage Feature Encourage
Delayed Enrollment?”
Contemporary
Economic Policy, 2013, 31, 135-144.
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“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.
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“The Role of Copulas in the Housing Crisis.”
Review
of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94, 607-620.
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“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)
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“The Relationship between Medicare
Supplemental Insurance and Health Care Spending: Selection Across
Multiple Dimensions.”
Eastern Economic
Journal, 2012, 38,
118-133.
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“Child Asthma and Maternal Labor Supply.”
Journal of
Economics, 2012, 38, 49-63. (with C. Strow)
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“The Dependence
Structure of Income Distribution.”
Applied
Economics, 2012, 44,
3573-3583. (with Y. Kim)
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“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.
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“Medical Savings Accounts and Preventative Health Care
Utilization.”
Journal
of Economics and Management, 2011, 7, 1-22. (with J. Cress)
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“State
Dependence Among the Uninsured: Accounting for
Feedback to Health and Employment.”
Forum for Health
Economics & Policy, 2010, 13: 2
(Health Economics), Article 4.
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“The Effect of Double Coverage on Health Care Utilization
of Children.”
Applied Economics, 2010, 42, 3105-3117.
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“Health Insurance and Health Care Demand Among the Self-Employed.”
Journal
of Labor Research, 2010, 31, 1-19.
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“The Role of Health Insurance in Labor Supply Decisions
of Divorced Females.”
Quarterly Review of
Economics and Finance, 2010, 50, 121-131.
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“The Effect of Health and Poverty on Early Childhood
Cognitive Development.”
Atlantic Economic Journal, 2010, 38, 37-49.
(with D. Welsch)
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“Racial Differences in Health Care Utilization: Analysis
by Intensity of Demand.”
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2009, 27,
475-490. (with X. Zheng)
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“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)
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“Modeling Bivariate Count Distributions with Finite
Mixture Models: Application to Health Care Demand of Married Couples.”
Applied
Economics, 2009, 1-7. (with X. Zheng)
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“Insurance Arrangements Among
Married Couples: Analysis of Benefit Substitution and Compensating
Differentials.”
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2009, 30,
428-439.
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“After-School Supervision and Children's Cognitive
Achievement.”
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &
Policy, 2008, 8, (Topics), Article 49. (with D. Welsch)
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“Farmers’ Health Insurance and Access to Health Care.”
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2008, 90,
267-279. (with X. Zheng)
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“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.
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“Asymmetric Effects of Marital Separation on Health
Insurance Among Men and Women.”
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2007, 25, 92-106.
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“Child Health and Maternal Work Activity: The Role of
Unobserved Heterogeneity.”
Eastern Economic Journal, 2007, 33, 43-64.
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“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)
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“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)
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“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)
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“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
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“Success at the Summer Olympics: How Much Do Economic
Factors Explain?” (with P. Trivedi) [download]
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“Does COBRA
Reduce the Probability that Job Separators Return to Work?” [download]
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“Pricing and Market Concentration: A New Estimation
Strategy” (with M. Doane, L. Froeb,
and G. Werden) [download]
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“The Dynamic
Relationship between Health and Health Insurance in the U.S.” [download]
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“Why So Few
G-Rated Movies? Distributional Differences Between Consumers and Professional
Critics” (with B. Goff and D.
Wilson) [download]
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“Inequality in Durations of Insurance Loss Following
Employment Disruption.” [download]
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“Crop Price Comovements during
Extreme Market Downturns.” [download]
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“Why do Movie
Studios Produce R-rated Films?” (with
B. Goff and D. Wilson) [download]
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“The Dynamic Relationship between School Size and
Academic Performance: An Investigation of Elementary Schools in Wisconsin (with
D. Welsch) [download]
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Teaching
Spring
2014:
Econ 441 – Managerial Economics
Econ 445 – Health Economics
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