Biases in the healthcare luxury good hypothesis?: A meta-regression analysis

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 95-107

  Costa Font, Joan ^a   Gemmill, Marin ^a   Rubert, Gloria ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aggregate health expenditure; Healthcare; Income elasticity; Luxury goods; Meta regression analysis; Regional health expenditure

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650869183     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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