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Optimal contributions to flexible spending accounts

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  • Bhattacharya, Jayanta
  • Schoenbaum, Michael
  • Sood, Neeraj

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  • Bhattacharya, Jayanta & Schoenbaum, Michael & Sood, Neeraj, 2002. "Optimal contributions to flexible spending accounts," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 76(1), pages 129-135, June.
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    1. Barton H. Hamilton & James Marton, 2008. "Employee choice of flexible spending account participation and health plan," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(7), pages 793-813, July.
    2. Jessica Leight & Nicholas Wilson, 2020. "Framing Flexible Spending Accounts: A Large‐Scale Field Experiment on Communicating the Return on Medical Savings Accounts," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(2), pages 195-208, February.

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