We perform an econometric investigation of the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to mortality reduction and … pharmaceutical innovation, there would have been no increase and perhaps even a small decrease in mean age at death, and that new … drugs have increased life expectancy, and lifetime income, by about 0.75-1.0% per annum. The drug innovation measures are …

of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in … Canada during the period 2000-2011, by investigating whether the cancer sites that experienced more pharmaceutical innovation …The estimates imply that pharmaceutical innovation during the period 1985-1996 reduced the number of years of potential …

I examine the impact of pharmaceutical innovation, as measured by the vintage (world launch year) of prescription drugs …