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The author is also an honorary senior fellow at the Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne and completed some of the work in this project when funded to visit the Centre for Health Economics, University of York, by the Alan Williams Fellowship. The author is grateful to Tony Scott, Vijaya Sundararajan, and Jongsay Yong who are chief investigators of the grant that initially funded this research and to Hugh Gravelle for advice and suggestions, and to Jon Evans, Daniel Donnelly, Anna Burgess, Anne-Maree Kelly, Russell Thomson, Buly Cardak, David Prentice, David Johnston, Peter Siminski, Bronwyn Croxson, Nils Gutacker, Rita Santos, Craig Garthwaite, and seminar participants at Monash University, University of York, University of Technology Sydney, Queensland University of Technology, University of Melbourne, RMIT University, and the Department of Health and Human Services (Victoria) for helpful comments. This research was funded by NHMRC Partnership grant 567217 with the Department of Health and Human Services (Victoria) as a funding partner. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone.