Does the age profile of health care expenditure really steepen over time? New evidence from Swiss cantons

Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 710-727

  Felder, Stefan ^a   Werblow, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing; End of life expenditure; Health care expenditure

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549106464     PISSN: 10185895     EISSN: 14680440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/gpp.2008.28     Document Type: Article

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