manufacturing productivity growth. Other research has suggested that, over the long run, growth in the U.S. economy's 'health output …

We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in the United States and in five European countries … utilization. These novelties have a major impact, especially in Europe, where our estimated TFP growth series are less volatile …-level and aggregate TFP series, as well as the first estimates of utilization-adjusted quarterly TFP growth in Europe …

We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … rather than providing a new permanent era of faster productivity growth. This joint transatlantic post-2005 slowdown is …

output fluctuations as the consequence of fluctuations in medical inputs (expenditure) and technology. We estimate longevity …

and technical assistance in the same period. We interpret this as supportive of the interpretation that technology …

compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are … the inventions that propelled U.S. productivity growth in the first half of the 20th century, and the next EU-10 stage for … 1972-95 as imitating the U.S. outcome for 1950-72. We show that both the pace of aggregate productivity growth during 1972 …

the differences in firm characteristics per se. Removing distortions could raise EU aggregate productivity by 40 percent …

account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

differences in patient severity or the productivity of health-care providers. We use a variety of instruments that are plausibly … endogenous for two out of three conditions. The elasticity of 30-day mortality with respect to care intensity increases in … hospital productivity, or increase with unmeasured patient severity …

not been very successful at reproducing the changes in fertility choice in response to decreased mortality and increased … increase in the growth rate of productivity which accounts for about 90 percent of the predicted fall in fertility before 1880 …, and changes in mortality which account for 90 percent of the predicted change from 1880 to 1950 …