Determinants of Access to Physician Services in Italy: A Latent Class Probit Approach

Atella VincenzoBrindisi FrancescoPartha DebRosati Furio Camillo
CEIS Working Papers
We examine access to general practitioners, public and private specialists in Italy. We develop a novel model using finite mixtures of probit models that provides a rich and flexible functional form. The mixed distribution is flexible and can accommodate
Number: 158
Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2002
Revision Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2002