A number of market failures have been associated with R&D investments and significant amounts of public money have been spent on program to stimulate innovative activities. In this paper, we review some recent microeconometric studies evaluating effects of government sponsored commercial R&D. We...

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship of economic growth to the education levels of the labor force. The enphasis is on Ben-Porath's contribution to some of the issues in this field: the endogeneity of schooling, the role of the public sector as an "absorber" of educated labor,...

We review in considerable detail the conceptual and measurement issues that underly construction of medical care price indexes in the U.S., particularly the medical care consumer price indexes (MCPIs) and medical-related producer price indexes (MPPIs). We ouline salient features of the medical...