Health Insurance and Mortality: Experimental Evidence from Taxpayer Outreach
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JEL classification:
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- 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-EXP-2020-01-06 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2020-01-06 (Health Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2020-01-06 (Insurance Economics)
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