TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coate,Douglas
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The Market for Optometric Services in the United States
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1976///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - February 1976; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the market for optometric services in the United States.  This paper is divided into seven sections. In the first section an overview of the practice of optometry is presented. This is succeeded by an examination of the distribution of eye health professionals in the United States. In sections 3-5 a market model for optometric services is specified and discussed. Next, estimates of the model are presented.  Finally, the implications of this research are considered
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w0122
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w0122
ER  -