The Welfare Implications of Health Insurance
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- Sonia Jaffe & Anup Malani, 2017. "The Welfare Implications of Health Insurance," Working Papers 2017-045, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
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JEL classification:
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2018-08-20 (Health Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2018-08-20 (Insurance Economics)
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