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| Author: | Bleichrodt, H. Crainich, D. Eeckhoudt, L. |
| Title: | Comorbities and the willingness to pay for health improvements |
| Journal: | Journal of Public Economics
2003 : OCT, VOL. 87:11, p. 2399-2406 |
| Index terms: | Cost benefit analysis Risk aversion Health service |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The authors show that the willingness to pay for health improvements increases with the severity and probability of occurence of comorbidities. The result implies that the discrimination of the elderly, believed to be implicit in cost benefit analysis, is less of a problem than commonly thought. |
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