Eliciting preferences for collectively financed health programmes: The 'willingness to assign' approach

Applied Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1571-1583

  Costa Font, Joan ^a   Rovira, Joan ^b,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PLANNING METHOD;

EID: 24344445258     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500181695     Document Type: Article

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