Utility functions that depend on health status: Estimates and economic implications

American Economic Review

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 353-374

  Viscusi, W Kip ^a   Evans, William N ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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