Unconditional Demand for Health Care in Cote d'Ivoire. Does Selection on Health Status Matter?

Health care demand price elasticies are often estimated from samples conditioned to include only sike people. This paper shows that not only may such estimates be statistically biased, but even when properly estimated they can only be interpreted as short-run price responses.

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Year of publication:	1996
Authors:	Dow, W.H.
Institutions:	World Bank Group
Subject:	HEALTH CARE \| DEMAND \| ECONOMIC MODELS \| MEDICAL COSTS

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Series:	World Bank - Living Standards Measurement.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	44 pages
Classification:	I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior ; I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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