Trends: Are the young becoming more disabled?

Health Affairs

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 168-176

  Lakdawalla, Darius N ^a   Bhattacharya, Jayanta ^b   Goldman, Dana P ^c  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISABILITY; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; LAW; MEDICAID; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICARE; OBESITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, DISABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3242696959     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.23.1.168     Document Type: Article

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11. The exclusion of the institutionalized appears to have little effect on our results, as discussed in an appendix available at www.rand.org/publications/ TR/TR104.
12. Ibid., for more detail on our estimation procedures.
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