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  E M P L O Y E E   B E N E F I T S ,   C O M P E N S A T I O N
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                Vol. 5,  No. 23: December 2, 2004
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NEW and FORTHCOMING ARTICLES

"Public Attitudes on the U.S. Health Care System: Findings From
 the Health Confidence Survey"
      EBRI Issue Brief, No. 275, November 2004
     RUTH HELMAN
        Mathew Greenwald & Associates
     PAUL FRONSTIN
        Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)


"Long-term Care Insurance Policy Dropping in the U.S. from 1996
 to 2000: Evidence and Implications for Long-term Care Financing"
      Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice,
      Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 640-651, October 2004
     PAUL E. MCNAMARA
        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
     NAYOUNG LEE
        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics


"Health Savings Accounts and Other Account-Based Health Plans"
      EBRI Issue Brief, No. 273, September 2004
     PAUL FRONSTIN
        Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)


"Uninsured Rose in 2003 as Number of Americans With
 Employment-Based Health Benefits Declined"
      EBRI Notes, Vol. 25, No. 10, October 2004
     PAUL FRONSTIN
        Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)


"Can Consumer-Choice Plans Satisfy Patients? Problems with Theory
 and Practice in Health Insurance Contracts"
      Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 69, No. 2, p. 485, 2004
     WENDY K. MARINER
        Boston University School of Public Health
        Boston University School of Law

WORKING PAPERS

"Behavioral Economics and Health Economics"
     RICHARD G. FRANK
        Harvard Medical School
        National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)


"Aged-Care Support in Japan: Perspectives and Challenges"
     OLIVIA S. MITCHELL
        Wharton School
        National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
     JOHN PIGGOTT
        University of New South Wales
        School of Economics
     SATOSHI SHIMIZUTANI
        Hitotsubashi University
        Institute of Economic Research