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We use longitudinal, disease-level data to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical … expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … the number of drugs to treat a disease, not the number of drug classes. Pharmaceutical innovation also reduced hospital …
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I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I …-2006. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation accounted for at least one-sixth of the decline in French cancer …
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increased more in some states than in others?" One of the conclusions I drew from that study was that medical innovation …-Berman express deep skepticism about my study's conclusion that medical innovation has played a very important role in recent U …
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Longitudinal, disease-level data are used to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity (mean age at … pharmaceutical innovation increased mean age at death by 0.87 years (10.4 months)- about 44% of the total increase in longevity -and … pharmaceutical innovation. The baseline estimate of the cost per life-year gained from pharmaceutical innovation in Greece is $17 …
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Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
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This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...
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This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...
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Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited within-country variation. It shows that the answer is largely positive, but also depends on the details of democratic reforms. First, the sequence of economic vs political...
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