Invited papers: When should governments subsidize health? The case of mass deworming

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 29, Issue , 2015, Pages S9-S24

  Ahuja, Amrita ^a   Baird, Sarah ^b   Hicks, Joan Hamory ^c   Kremer, Michael ^d,e   Miguel, Edward ^e,f   Powers, Shawn ^g  

^a Douglas B Marshall Jr Family Foundation   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Southern California   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Adbul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; RESEARCH; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

KENYA; UGANDA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939632019     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhv008     Document Type: Article

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