Willingness to pay and size of health benefit: An integrated model to test for 'sensitivity to scale'

Health Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 791-796

  Yeung, Raymond Y T ^a,b   Smith, Richard D ^a,c   McGhee, Sarah M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CBA; Econometrics; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICISM; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SYMPTOM; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORY;

EID: 0042694388     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.786     Document Type: Article

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