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How Much Do Older Workers Value Employee Health Insurance?

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Leora Friedberg
Wei Sun
Anthony Webb
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This brief seeks to answer the question in the title by analyzing data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative survey of older Americans. New questions in the HRS enable researchers to compare the value that workers place on health insurance with their perceptions about the cost of coverage...

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Paper provided by Center for Retirement Research in its series Issues in Brief with number ib2008-8-9.

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Length: 10 pages
Date of creation: Jul 2008
Date of revision: Jul 2008
Handle: RePEc:crr:issbrf:ib2008-8-9

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