Income variation and health expenditure: Evidence for OECD countries

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 258-267

  Rivera, Berta ^a   Currais, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; OECD;

EID: 0032712243     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9361.00066     Document Type: Article

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