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Policy Choice and Product Bundling in a Complicated Health Insurance Market

Do People Get It Right?

Nathan Kettlewell
Journal of Human Resources, March 2020, 55 (2) 566-610; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.55.2.0417-8689R1
Nathan Kettlewell
Nathan Kettlewell is a research fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, Economics Discipline Group, Broadway, NSW, 2007, Australia ().
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Policy Choice and Product Bundling in a Complicated Health Insurance Market
Nathan Kettlewell
Journal of Human Resources Mar 2020, 55 (2) 566-610; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.55.2.0417-8689R1
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