Title: Benefit incidence analysis : are government health expenditures more pro-rich than we think?

Authors: Wagstaff, Adam

Place: Washington, DC

Publisher: World bank

Year: 2010

Journal: Policy research working paper

Volume: 5234

PAGE: --

Subject: Health and Poverty

Keywords: health economics, health care delivery, health policy

Abstract: This paper examines the implications of a central assumption of benefit incidence analysis, namely that the unit cost of a government-provided service bears no relation to the out-of-pocket payments paid by the patient.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-5234

Document type: Portal