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  • Matthew Eichner, Mark B. McClellan, and David A. Wise, Inquiries in the Economics of Aging (University of Chicago Press, 1998), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/inquiries-economics-aging/insurance-or-self-insurance-variation-persistence-and-individual-health-accounts.

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