during 2000-2006, a period of increasing poverty and obesity and declining health insurance coverage. … study was subject to a number of major methodological flaws. Many of their claims pertain to the role of infant mortality …. I show that infant mortality was not an important determinant of the growth in U.S. life expectancy during the period …

during 2000-2006, a period of increasing poverty and obesity and declining health insurance coverage … study was subject to a number of major methodological flaws. Many of their claims pertain to the role of infant mortality …. I show that infant mortality was not an important determinant of the growth in U.S. life expectancy during the period …

during 2000-2006, a period of increasing poverty and obesity and declining health insurance coverage … study was subject to a number of major methodological flaws. Many of their claims pertain to the role of infant mortality …. I show that infant mortality was not an important determinant of the growth in U.S. life expectancy during the period …

I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on US cancer mortality rates during the … pre‐dated factors that drove both innovation and mortality and that there would have been parallel trends in mortality in …-adjusted cancer mortality rate during 2000–2009. Drug innovation and imaging innovation are estimated to have reduced the cancer …

manufacturing productivity growth. Other research has suggested that, over the long run, growth in the U.S. economy's 'health output …' has been at least as large as the growth in non-health goods and services. One important input in the production of health …, we estimate health production functions, in which the dependent variables are various indicators of post-treatment health …

manufacturing productivity growth. Other research has suggested that, over the long run, growth in the U.S. economy's 'health output …' has been at least as large as the growth in non-health goods and services. One important input in the production of health …, we estimate health production functions, in which the dependent variables are various indicators of post-treatment health …

this paper we investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the annual time …-series behavior of U.S. longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and output … annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual data are …