David
Zimmer
University
Distinguished Professor
Department of
Economics
Western Kentucky
University
Econ 499 information
Vita [ pdf ]
[webpage updated 9/2025]
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Publications
BOOK
· Copula Modeling: An Introduction for
Practitioners.
Now Publishers, 2007, Hanover,
MA. (with P.K. Trivedi)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
·
“A Copula Based Method for Accommodating
Feedback in Random Effects Panel Models.”
Empirical
Economics, forthcoming.
·
“The Long Run Effects of Recessions on
Fertility.”
Review of Economics of the Household, forthcoming.
·
“Performing in High Pressure Situations: The
Case of Tennis Players Up a Break and Serving for the Set.”
Applied Economics, forthcoming.
(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
· “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)
· “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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