What every public finance economist needs to know about health economics: Recent advances and unresolved questions

National Tax Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 771-788

  Glied, Sherry A ^a   Remler, Dahlia K ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2002.4.07     Document Type: Article

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