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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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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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Constrained Job Matching : Does Teacher Job Search Harm Disadvantaged Urban Schools?

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

Search theory suggests that early career job changes on balance lead to better matches that benefit both workers and firms, but this may not hold in teacher labor markets characterized by salary rigidities, barriers to entry, and substantial differences in working conditions that are difficult...

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Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...

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The Market for Teacher Quality

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2005

Much of education policy focuses on improving teacher quality, but most policies lack strong research support. We use student achievement gains to estimate teacher value-added, our measure of teacher quality. The analysis reveals substantial variation in the quality of instruction, most of which...

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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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The Long Run Importance of School Quality

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2002

The role of schooling and school quality in the economy has become very confused, in part because of attempts to argue different positions on educational policy. Research demonstrates that school quality has a strong impact on individual earnings, on the distribution of income, and on overall...

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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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New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education : The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2002

Uncovering the effects of school racial composition on achievement is difficult, because racial mixing in the schools is not an accident but instead represents a complex mixture of government and family choices. While the goals of the integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of...

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