How elastic is the firm's demand for health insurance?

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 1273-1293

  Gruber, Jonathan ^a   Lettau, Michael ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Health insurance; Tax subsidies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347759830     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(02)00191-3     Document Type: Article

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