The Effect of Tax Preferences on Health Spending

John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, Daniel P. Kessler

NBER Working Paper No. 13767
Issued in January 2008

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We would like to thank Joe Antos, William Gentry, Michael Smart, George Zodrow, two anonymous referees, and seminar participants at Stanford and the Brookings Institution for helpful comments; Peter Banwarth for exceptional research assistance; Kate Bundorf for the idea of using the Community Tracking Study (CTS); and Peter Granda of the ICPSR for help in obtaining the CTS data. Kessler gratefully acknowledges support from the National Institute on Aging through the NBER. Contact authors at fkessler@stanford.edu. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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