Sources of advantageous selection: Evidence using actual health expenditure risk

Economics Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 579-582

  Johar, Meliyanni ^a   Savage, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Health expenditure risk; Health insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864743201     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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