that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market … destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using detailed data on patents …

We use individual and multi-level data from Zambia on child nutritional health to test the absolute income hypothesis …-linear positive relation between economic resources and health, confirming the AIH. For the RIH we find sensitivity to what reference … affect health negatively, we find higher income inequality to robustly associate with better child health. The results …

-invariant unobserved heterogeneity between individuals as well as common health shocks.Overall, the results suggest that this innovation … to pay attention to the health effects of a longer working life, with rather mixed results thus far. Utilizing panel data … evidence of the health effects of retirement.In contrast to prior research, we analyze both the impact of being retired and the …

Good health is crucial for human and economic development. In particular poor health in childhood seems to be of utmost … strong force affecting adult and child health outcomes. Yet, there is much unexplained variation with respect to the … globalization effect on child health, in particular in low- and middle-income countries. One factor that could explain such …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …