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The labor market consequences of appropriate technology

De Souza, Gustavo - 2022

increases wage inequality but leads to greater production in developing countries. I study a Brazilian innovation program that … taxed the leasing of international technology to subsidize national innovation. I show that the program led firms to replace …

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A pharmaceutical innovation: Is it worth the money? Whose money?

Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

This study seeks to provide evidence for deciding whether or not a pharmaceutical innovation should be included in the … treatment cost in both financing alternatives, justifying inclusion of the innovation in the benefit list from a cost …

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Emerging through Technological Capability: An Overview of India's Technological Trajectory

Ray, Amit Shovon - 2008

India's emergence in the world economy over the last decade, has often, in popular discourse, been attributed, at least to a large extent, to its sustained efforts towards technological learning and capacity building. In this paper we present an overview of India's technological trajectory with...

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Structural development accounting

Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011

: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local … model provides a good fit of GDP data for up to 86 countries in 1970 and 122 countries in 2000. Removing barriers to ….61, while increasing skill premia in all countries. Removing barriers to trade in goods amplifies income disparities, induces …

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Mortality, morbidity, and occupational decline

Hernäs, Sofia - 2023

Does the long-term economic stress of occupational decline cause health problems, or even death? This paper explores this question using Swedish administrative data, and a measure of occupational decline obtained from detailed US data on employment changes over almost 30 years. I investigate...

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Medical expenditure growth and the diffusion of medical technology

Polchlopek, Justin - 2011

The general consensus among health economists is that the increasing capability of medical providers-often called medical technology-is responsible for the majority of growth in medical expenditure. And yet, the principle means of understanding medical technology is through the use of total...

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Mismeasurement in pay-for-performance: Evidence from an intervention to reduce health care spending in China

Wu, Bingxiao - 2014

2005, China imposed a policy that penalizes hospitals with high drug sale percentage in the total revenue, with the intent …

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Information presentation and consumer choice: Evidence from Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) success rates reports

Wu, Bingxiao - 2014

Prior literature on quality disclosure focuses on whether information provision affects consumer choice. This paper extends this research and explores whether information presentation affects consumer responsiveness in the context of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) reports. I find that...

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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector

Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016

Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and outpatient sectors by using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a significantly...

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Does physician pay affect procedure choice and patient health? Evidence from medicaid C-section use

Alexander, Diane - 2017

I investigate the relationship between physician pay, C-section use, and infant health, using vital statistics data and newly collected data on Medicaid payments to physicians. First, I confirm past results - when Medicaid pays doctors relatively more for C-sections, they perform them more...

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