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Does Reporting Heterogeneity bias the Measurement of Health Disparities?

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Teresa Bago d'Uva () (University of York)
Eddy van Doorslaer () (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam and Netspar)
Maarten Lindeboom () (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, HEB, IZA, and Netspar)
Owen O'Donnell (University of Macedonia, and Netspar)
Somnath Chatterji (World Health Organization)

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This discussion paper resulted in a publication in Health Economics, 2008, 17(3), 351-75).

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Keywords: health measurement vignettes self-reported health reporting heterogeneity

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