The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts: Supplementary Document
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This is the supplement to the paper “The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts” by the same authors. We present a short history of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), describe the solution algorithm, and illustrate details about the estimation technique for the Markov transition matrices of the health shocks. JEL: H51, I18, I38,
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