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Medical Innovations and Ageing : A Health Economics Perspective

Grossmann, Volker - 2021

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...

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Response to Baker and Fugh-Berman's critique of my paper, Why has longevity increased more in some states than in others?

Lichtenberg, Frank - 2009

definition of drug vintage; the issue of age adjustment; and the appropriateness of controlling for AIDS, obesity, and smoking in … consistent with the FDA's evaluation of the therapeutic potential of new drugs. I argue that controlling for AIDS, obesity, and …

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Growth and enduring epidemic diseases

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2006

This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...

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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Mansour, Hani - 2020

data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …

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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2018

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...

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Reciprocity and emotions when reciprocators know each other

Reuben, Ernesto; van Winden, Frans - 2006

This is an experimental study of a three-player power-to-take game where a take authority is matched with two responders. The game consists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides how much of the endowment of each responder that is left after the second stage will be...

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King of the Hill: Giving Backward Induction its Best Shot

Dufwenberg, Martin; Van Essen, Matt - 2016

experiment. …

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Giving in the Face of Risk

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno; Tran, Giang - 2016

interact in such situations. In this paper we provide experimental evidence on this question. In a first experiment givers are … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …

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The Effects of Computers on Children's Social Development and School Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Control Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kalil, Ariel - 2016

control experiment in which more than one thousand children attending grades 6-10 across 15 different schools and 5 school …

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Experienced Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution

Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2016

conduct an experiment to show that individuals randomly exposed to environments promoting inequality in the experience stage … of the experiment redistribute less in a subsequent behavioral measure. …

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