Health plan choice: Price elasticities in a managed competition setting

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-41

  Royalty, Anne Beeson ^b   Solomon, Neil ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0032997390     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/146301     Document Type: Article

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