Health behavior in developing countries

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 425-449

  Dupas, Pascaline ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Incentive; Market failures; Prevention; Subsidy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051763623     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-111809-125029     Document Type: Review

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