Market Evidence of Misperceived Prices and Mistaken Mortality Risks

Jay Bhattacharya, Dana Goldman, Neeraj Sood

NBER Working Paper No. 9863
Issued in July 2003

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We are grateful to the National Institute on Aging for financial support. We thank Alan Garber, Victor Fuchs, William Vogt, Jim Dertouzos, Steve Garber, Ted Frech, Joe Newhouse, Matt Miller and seminar participants at Stanford University, RAND, UC Irvine, University of Chicago, Duke University (hosting the Annual Health Economics Conference), and Indiana University for their comments. We especially thank Dan Kessler and an anonymous reviewer for constructive comments on an earlier versions of the paper. We are responsible for all remaining errors. 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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