Financial Incentives for Therapy Completion: A Randomized Control Trial with US Veterans (with Ethan Lieber and Meghan Skira)
Useful Code
The following program can be used to determine which of 11 parametric distributions best fits the empirical (conditional or unconditional) distribution of a variable of interest. The distributions mimic those used in Jones, Lomas, and Rice (2014), which are chosen to fit a healthcare expenditure distribution that is characterized by a long right tail. I have attached an edited (publicly available) data file from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) as an example of how the code works.