Discounting future health gains: An empirical enquiry into the influence of growing life expectancy

Health Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-119

  Bobinac, Ana ^a   Brouwer, Werner ^a   Van Exel, Job ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

discounting; health gains; life expectancy; subjective expectations; time preference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650269230     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1578     Document Type: Article

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