quantity of medical innovation. Analyzing whether inventions emphasize cost and/or quality requires generating new data. We do …

Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine … negative impact on downstream innovation in medical implants, but it had no significant effect on upstream polymer patenting … effect on downstream innovation …

higher rates of lab and outpatient innovation had greater declines in the probability of missing work during 1996-2003. This … for initial disability, the inverse relationship between lab innovation and disability changes disappears. This is because … there is a significant inverse relationship between initial health and the extent of laboratory innovation. But due to …

I study the channels through which health insurance influences medical innovation. Following Medicare and Medicaid … per resident. Consistent with historical case studies, Medical innovation's determinants extend beyond the potential … revenues associated with global market size; a physician driven process of innovation-while-doing appears to play a central …

We examine the relationship between product liability litigation and innovation by systematically combining data on …

remains unachieved because of persistently low demand for high-quality products. In a randomized field experiment in Senegal …