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The effect of price on counselling sessions attended by depression patients

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  • Jeff Desimone
  • Sara Markowitz

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We estimate the price elasticity of counselling sessions attended by outpatient depression treatment recipients. Instrumental variable regression indicates a significant negative price elasticity ranging between -0.26 and -0.35 that is not apparent from ordinary least squares regression.

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  • Jeff Desimone & Sara Markowitz, 2003. "The effect of price on counselling sessions attended by depression patients," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(14), pages 899-903.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:10:y:2003:i:14:p:899-903
    DOI: 10.1080/1350485032000165511
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