Relations between health care expenditure and income: An application of local quantile regressions

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 177-181

  Chen, M Y ^a   Lin, F L ^b   Chang, C K ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; OECD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 58949097696     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850601018114     Document Type: Article

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