The effect of dental insurance on the use of dental care for older adults: a partial identification analysis.
We evaluate the impact of dental insurance on the use of dental services using a potential outcomes identification framework designed to handle uncertainty created by unknown counterfactuals-that is, the endogenous selection problem-and uncertainty about the reliability of self-reported insurance status. Using data from the health and retirement study, we estimate that utilization rates of adults older than 50 years would increase from 75% to around 80% under universal dental coverage.
['Kreider|Brent|B|', 'Manski|Richard J|RJ|', 'Moeller|John|J|', 'Pepper|John|J|']
D000368:Aged D003729:Dental Care D005260:Female D006801:Humans D019458:Insurance Coverage D007347:Insurance, Dental D008297:Male D008875:Middle Aged D017059:Models, Econometric D015203:Reproducibility of Results
dental insurance dental care partial identification selection classification errors treatment effect