Overview
Virginia Wilcox-Gok is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL). Her research focuses on health economics, particularly the determinants of health insurance coverage and medical care utilization among the elderly. She has published on private health insurance coverage and utilization patterns using large-scale U.S. survey data.
Key Contributions / Features
- Gibbons-Wilcox-Gok (1998): Applied the full-information multivariate probit model to Medicare enrollees' health service utilization patterns (5 binary outcomes: provider visit, outpatient, ER, hospital, home health care) using NMES 1987–1988 data; co-developed the economic demand-for-care model specification with insurance coverage dummy variables and demographic controls; found Medicare + Medicaid strongly associated with acute care utilization and home health care but not outpatient visits.
- Wilcox-Gok and Rubin (1994): "Health Insurance Coverage Among the Elderly." Social Science and Medicine 38: 1521–1529.
- Wilcox-Gok and Rubin (1996): "Private Health Insurance and Utilization of Medical Care Among the Elderly." Working paper, Northern Illinois University.
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