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A Survey of Recent Research in Health Economics
Grossman, Michael - 1976
In this survey of recent research in health economics, I concentrate on studies that have appeared since 1971 or are in … are covered: (1) demand for adults' health and medical care; (2) effects of health on labor supply and wage rates; (3 …) demand for children's health and medical care and (4) selected topics pertaining to the supply side of the medical care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478998
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Health and Economic Activity Over the Lifecycle : Literature Review
Prinz, Daniel - 2018
We systematically review the literature linking health to economic activity, particularly education and labor market … outcomes, over the lifecycle. In the first part, we review studies that link childhood health to later-life outcomes. The main … themes we focus on are in-utero exposures, birthweight, physical health and nutrition, mental health, and the environment. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452856
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The Impact of Lead Exposure on Fertility, Infant Mortality, and Infant Birth Outcomes
Clay, Karen; Hollingsworth, Alex; Severnini, Edson R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
evidence from humans support claims of an adverse relationship between lead pollution and human health. Since lead exposure is … has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322767
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Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform
Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) is surpassing human performance in a growing number of domains. However, there is limited evidence of its economic effects. Using data from a digital platform, we study a key application of AI: machine translation. We find that the introduction of a machine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480572
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How to Talk When a Machine is Listening : Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
Cao, Sean - 2020
This paper analyzes how corporate disclosure has been reshaped by machine processors, employed by algorithmic traders, robot investment advisors, and quantitative analysts. Our findings indicate that increasing machine and AI readership, proxied by machine downloads, motivates firms to prepare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482170
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Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing : A q-r Theory
Ellison, Glenn - 2000
This paper develops a model of evolving standards for academic publishing. It is motivated by the increasing tendency of academic journals to require multiple revisions of articles and by changes in the content of articles. Papers are modeled as varying along two quality dimensions: q and r. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470945
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The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process
Ellison, Glenn - 2000
Over the last three decades there has been a dramatic increase in the length of time necessary to publish a paper in a top economics journal. This paper documents the slowdown and notes that a substantial part is due to an increasing tendency of journals to require that papers be extensively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470946
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Market Value and Patent Citations : A First Look
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2000
As patent data become more available in machine-readable form, an increasing number of researchers have begun to use measures based on patents and their citations as indicators of technological output and information flow. This paper explores the economic meaning of these citation-based patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471009
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The Meaning of Patent Citations : Report on the NBER/Case-Western Reserve Survey of Patentees
Jaffe, Adam B. - 2000
A survey of recent patentees was conducted to elicit their perceptions regarding the importance of their inventions, the extent of their communication with other inventors, and the relationship of both importance and communication to observed patent citations. A cohort of 1993 patentees were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471136
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Does Research Save Lives? The Local Spillovers of Biomedical Research on Mortality
McKibbin, Rebecca; Weinberg, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
marginal value of biomedical research is challenging due to a lack of micro data linking health outcomes to plausibly exogenous ….35%. Our results also provide novel evidence that there are health benefits to the local communities (local spillovers) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660098