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September 1998

Prescription drug prices for the elderly

Ernst R. Berndt, Iain M. Cockburn, Douglas L. Cocks, Arnold M. Epstein, Zvi Griliches

Recent research suggests that there is little difference in the rates of drug price inflation facing older and younger Americans, when age-related patterns of consumption are taken into account

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