Health inequality and health insurance coverage: The United States and China compared
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101346
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- Costa-Font, Joan & Cowell, Frank A. & Shi, Xuezhu, 2023. "Health Inequality and Health Insurance Coverage: The United States and China Compared," IZA Discussion Papers 16629, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Joan Costa-Font & Frank Cowell & Xuezhu Shi & Joan Costa-i-Font, 2023. "Health Inequality and Health Insurance Coverage: The United States and China Compared," CESifo Working Paper Series 10807, CESifo.
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Health inequality; Self-assessed health; Health insurance coverage; Social determinants of health;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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