This is the first paper to investigate the determinants of the demand for medical care in the People's Republic of China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health care spending, and price. A two-part model and a...

Conventional segregation indices indicate complete integration when the proportion of minorities in a metropolitan area is replicated in any subarea. However, this would not occur, even absent discrimination, because majorities and minorities have different distributions of other...