Contrasting Inequalities: Comparing Correlates of Health in Canada and the United States
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Keywords
self-reported health; United States; Canada; health insurance; income; race; ethnicity; age; sex;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2007-01-06 (Health Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2007-01-06 (Insurance Economics)
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