While the potential for intellectual property rights to inhibit the diffusion of scientific knowledge is at the heart … this debate is how intellectual property rights over a given piece of knowledge affects the propensity of future … researchers to build upon that knowledge in their own scientific research activities. This article frames this debate around the …

The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … innovators can draw. Both of these are endogenous: Investments in innovations are affected by the pool of knowledge and the …

Mounting evidence documents a stark correlation between income and health, yet the causal mechanisms behind this … gradient are poorly understood. This paper examines the impact of access to expertise on health, and whether unequal access to … expertise contributes to the health-income gradient. Our empirical setting, Sweden, allows us to shut down inequality in formal …

produce health. This suggests that the more educated have more knowledge about the health production function and they have … more health knowledge. This paper uses data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the NLSY97 to conduct an investigation of the … allocative efficiency hypothesis by analyzing whether education improves health knowledge. The survey design allows us to observe …

drinking. Controlling for health knowledge does not influence the impact of education on health behaviors, supporting the …Using data from the NLSY97 we analyze the impact of education on health behaviors, measured by smoking and heavy … between education and health behaviors, this effect disappears once the models control for family fixed effects. Similarly …