Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error
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- Anna Choi & John Cawley, 2018. "Health disparities across education: The role of differential reporting error," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(3), pages 1-29, March.
- John Cawley & Anna Choi, 2015. "Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error," NBER Working Papers 21317, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
disparities; education; health; reporting error;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2015-07-11 (Education)
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