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Incentive and Selection Effects in Health Insurance

In: The Elgar Companion to Health Economics

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The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50 chapters written by more than 90 leading international contributors. The contributions to the Companion are concise and focus on specific concepts, methods and key evidence.

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  • Pierre-Yves Geoffard, 2006. "Incentive and Selection Effects in Health Insurance," Chapters, in: Andrew M. Jones (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, chapter 10, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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