Public health insurance expansions and hospital technology adoption

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 121, Issue , 2015, Pages 117-131

  Freedman, Seth ^a   Lin, Haizhen ^b   Simon, Kosali ^a,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowd out; Insurance expansions; Medicaid; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920183977     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.10.005     Document Type: Article

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