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The impact of new drug launches on longevity : evidence from longitudinal disease-level data from 52 countries, 1982-2001

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2003

We perform an econometric analysis of the effect of new drug launches on longevity, using data from the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the WHO Mortality Database. Our data cover virtually all of the diseases borne by people in 52 countries during the period 1982-2001, and enable us to...

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The Determinants of Trust

Alesina, Alberto - 2000

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors that reduce trust are: i) a recent history of traumatic experiences, even though the passage of time reduces this effect...

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Fiscal Policy, Profits, and Investment

Alesina, Alberto - 1999

This paper evaluates the effects of fiscal policy on investment using a panel of OECD countries. In particular, we investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and , as a result, investment. We find a sizable negative effect of public spending -- and in particular of its...

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Training, Tenure, and Productivity

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 1981

for estimation of the marginal productivity of workers classified by length of service to the firm, i.e., of the tenure …

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Who Adjusts and When? On the Political Economy of Reforms

Alesina, Alberto - 2006

Why do countries delay stabilizations of large and increasing budget deficits and inflation? And what explains the timing of reforms? We use the war of attrition model as a guidance for our empirical study on a vast sample of countries. We find that stabilizations are more likely to occur when...

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The Effect of Education on Medical Technology Adoption : Are the More Educated More Likely to Use New Drugs

Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2002

There is a large body of work that documents a strong, positive correlation between education and measures of health, but little is known about the mechanisms by which education might affect health. One possibility is that more educated individuals are more likely to adopt new medical...

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The Effect of Changes in Drug Utilization on Labor Supply and Per Capita Output

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2002

We hypothesize that pharmaceutical-embodied technical progress increases per capita output via its effect on labor supply (the employment rate and hours worked per employed person). We examine the effect of changes in both the average quantity and average vintage (FDA approval year) of drugs...

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Sources of U.S. Longevity Increase, 1960-1997

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2002

models using annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual … data are available for only one type of innovation - new drugs - but pharmaceutical R&D accounts for a significant fraction … innovation (in the form of new drug approvals) and expenditure on medical care (especially public expenditure) contributed to …

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Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities

Alesina, Alberto - 2001

The poor favor redistribution and the rich oppose it, but that is not all. Social mobility may make some of today's poor into tomorrow's rich and since redistributive policies do not change often, individual preferences for redistribution should depend on the extent and the nature of social...

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The Allocation of Publicly-Funded Biomedical Research

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 1998

We develop a simple theoretical model of the allocation of public biomedical research expenditure, and present some empirical evidence about the determinants of this allocation. The structure of expenditure should depend on the relative costs as well as the relative benefits of different kinds...

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