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What's Different about Health? Human Repair and Car Repair in National Accounts and in National Health Accounts

In: Medical Care Output and Productivity

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  • Jack E. Triplett, 2001. "What's Different about Health? Human Repair and Car Repair in National Accounts and in National Health Accounts," NBER Chapters, in: Medical Care Output and Productivity, pages 15-96, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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