Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?
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- Jay Bhattacharya & Kate Bundorf & Noemi Pace & Neeraj Sood, 2009. "Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?," NBER Working Papers 15163, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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