Is American Pet Health Care (Also) Uniquely Inefficient?
We document four similarities between American human healthcare and American pet care: (i) rapid growth in spending as a share of GDP over the last two decades; (ii) strong income-spending gradient; (iii) rapid growth in the employment of healthcare providers; and (iv) similar propensity for high sp...
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American Economic Association
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114282 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684 |