Heterogeneity in health responses and anchoring vignettes

Empirical Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 513-538

  Peracchi, Franco ^a   Rossetti, Claudio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anchoring vignettes; Health domains; Reporting bias; Self assessment of health

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; GENDER DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SELF ASSESSMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84857920380     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-011-0530-8     Document Type: Article

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