Aging and choice: Applications to medicare part D

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 92-101

  Tanius, Betty E ^a   Wood, Stacey ^d   Hanoch, Yaniv ^b   Rice, Thomas ^c  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age differences; Choice; Decision making; Maximizing; Medicare part d; Satisficing

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350148101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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