Agency in health-care: Are medical care-givers perfect agents?

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1355-1360

  Neuman, Einat ^a   Neuman, Shoshana ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE; MODELING;

EID: 70349565237     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850701367379     Document Type: Article

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