Pravin K. Trivedi - Indiana University
Department of Economics  
Pravin Trivedi is Distinguished Professor and J. H. Rudy Professor in the Department of Economics at Indiana University. His current research and teaching interests are in microeconometric methods and applications, with special emphasis on limited dependent and discrete (especially count) variable models. His applied research concentrates on health economics and analyzes and econometrically models  the role of incentives and selection in healthcare insurance and utilization.

Department of Economics,
Wylie Hall 105, 100 S. Woodlawn, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone:(812) 855 3567, Fax: (812) 855 3736
Email:  trivedi@indiana.edu


 

Research
Books
Microeconometrics Using Stata Revised Edition 
A. Colin Cameron and Pravin K. Trivedi
Stata Press, College Station, Texas, 2010.
Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications  
A. Colin Cameron and Pravin K. Trivedi
Cambridge University Press, New York, May 2005
Copula Modeling: An Introduction for Practitioners  
Pravin K. Trivedi and David M. Zimmer
Now Publishers, Hanover, Mass., 2007
Regression Analysis of Count Data                      
A. Colin Cameron and Pravin K. Trivedi
Cambridge University Press, New York, 1998

Recently published articles

Recent Developments in Cross Section and Panel Count Models, chapter 4 in A. Ullah and D. Giles, Ed., Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance, pp. 87-131. Francis and Taylor, 2010.

Disentangling Incentives Effects of Insurance Coverage from Adverse Selection in the Case of Drug Expenditure: a Finite Mixture Approach (with M.K. Munkin), Health Economics, 19: 1093–1108 (2010).   

Provider Networks and Primary Care Signups: Do They Restrict the Use of Medical Services? (with P. Deb) Health Economics, 18(12), 1361-1380.

Bayesian Analysis of the Ordered Probit Model with Endogenous Selection. (With M. Munkin) Journal of Econometrics, 143 (2008) 334–348

Computational Considerations in Empirical Microeconometrics: Selected Examples (with David T. Jacho-Chávez). Chapter 15 in
T. C. Mills and K. Patterson eds., Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics: Applied Econometrics, 2. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009

Microeconometrics. Entry 224 in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science: Finance and Econometrics, 21pp.
Editor: Bruce Mizrach. Springer-Verlag 2008

A Bayesian Analysis of the OPES Model with a Nonparametric Component: An Application to Dental Insurance and Dental Care.
Chapter 3 in Advances in Econometrics, Bayesian Econometrics, 23, 87-114,, edited by Siddhartha Chib, Gary Koop, and Bill Griffiths. Elsevier Press 2008.


Selected recent working papers

Medicare Health Plan Choice of the Elderly – A Choice-with-Screening Model, (with Qian Li), Revised January 2011.

Alternative Approaches for Econometric Analysis of Panel Count Data using Dynamic Latent Class Models (with Application to Doctor Visits Data), (with Judex Hyppolite) March 2011

Finite Mixture for Panels with Fixed Effects (with Partha Deb) March 2011

Dynamic Cost-offsets of Prescription Drug Expenditure: Panel Data Analysis Using a Copula-based Hurdle Model (with P. Deb and D.M. Zimmer), Revised January 2011.

Empirical models of health care use (with Partha Deb) January 2011

Impact of Prescription Drug Coverage on Drug Expenditures of the Elderly -- Evidence from a Two-part Model with Endogeneity (with Qian Li), June 2009.


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Teaching
I teach E673 (Microeconometrics) and E770 (Seminar in Econometrics). Information about syllabus and course resources is available to registered IU students through https://oncourse.iu.edu/portal.
 

Useful links
Co-authors' Home Pages
Colin Cameron
Partha Deb
Murat K. Munkin

David M. Zimmer
Econometrics Journals
Econometrica and the Econometric Society
The Econometrics Journal  
Econometric Links  
The Journal of Econometrics
Data Archives
Journal of Business and Econ. Stat Data Archive  
Journal. of Applied Econometrics Data Archive  
ICPSR Data Site at University of Michigan
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Health and Retirement Study
Searches
IU Library Full-text Journals
NBER Working Papers
EconLit
JSTORE
RePEc
Google Scholar
Updated March 19, 2011
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