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Demand for Health Care among the Urban Poor, with Special Emphasis on the Role of Time

In: The Role of Health Insurance in the Health Services Sector

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  • Jan Paul Acton, 1976. "Demand for Health Care among the Urban Poor, with Special Emphasis on the Role of Time," NBER Chapters, in: The Role of Health Insurance in the Health Services Sector, pages 163-214, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. Davis, Karen & Russell, Louise B, 1972. "The Substitution of Hospital Outpatient Care for Inpatient Care," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 54(2), pages 109-120, May.
    2. Martin S. Feldstein, 1971. "An Econometric Model of the Medicare System," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 85(1), pages 1-20.
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