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Premium subsidies and demand for private health insurance: results from a regression discontinuity design

Nathan KettlewellSchool of Economics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Olena StavrunovaEconomics Discipline Group, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Oleg YerokhinSchool of Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 96-101 | Published online: 14 Mar 2017

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