This paper is motivated by our attempt to answer an empirical question: how is private health insurance take-up in Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) kicks in? We propose a new difference de-convolution kernel estimator for the location and size of regression discontinuities. We also propose a bootstrapping procedure for estimating confidence bands for the estimated discontinuity. Performance of the estimator is evaluated by Monte Carlo simulations before it is applied to estimating the effect of the income threshold of Medicare Levy Surcharge on the take-up of private health insurance in Australia using contaminated data.

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税收政策对澳大利亚私人医疗保险需求影响的非参数核估计

这篇论文的动机是我们试图回答一个实证问题：澳大利亚的私人医疗保险的使用如何受到医疗保险附加费 (MLS) 开始的收入门槛的影响？我们为回归不连续点的位置和大小提出了一种新的差分反卷积核估计器。我们还提出了一个引导程序，用于估计估计不连续性的置信区间。在使用受污染的数据估计医疗保险征收附加费的收入阈值对澳大利亚私人医疗保险的采用的影响之前，通过蒙特卡罗模拟评估了估计器的性能。