I assess the impact that pharmaceutical innovation had on cancer mortality in Mexico during the period 2003-2013, by … of cancer drug innovation to Mexican longevity growth has been valuable, but, perhaps, it could have been even larger … investigating whether there were larger declines in the age-standardized mortality rate of cancer sites (breast, lung, colon, etc …

with 1–2 weeks later arrival and no detectable reduction in final mortality. The case for permanent limits on international …Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits … respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly …

novelists exhibit lower mortality than fellow nominees. The increase of longevity is estimated at 2.4 years. Recipients of the … Naoki Prize for established novelists exhibit higher mortality than fellow nominees, and the decreased longevity is 5 … their recipients' longevity. Using a dataset covering both awards, we show that recipients of the Akutagawa Prize for rising …

a diversified manner and over long durations while managing interest rate and longevity risks. In recent years, a new … type of investment has emerged, that we call a longevity megafund, which invests in clinical trials for solutions against … lifespan-limiting diseases and provides returns positively correlated with longevity. After describing ongoing biomedical …

Empirical analyses of twin mortality often use models with dependent unobserved frailty terms capturing genetic and … childhood environmental determinants. This ignores that mortality rates can be co-dependent due to bereavement effects, i.e. to … a time-dependent causal effect of the loss of the co-twin on the mortality rate of the surviving twin. We develop a …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … longevity at older ages, using unique individual data and exploiting the exogenous variation implied by natural experiments. In … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during …

In this paper, we give an overview on recent developments in the research on national innovation systems (NIS … of these research trends that the concept has developed in distinctive directions. In international comparisons of … innovation systems, heterogeneity in the structure of the systems is only marginally taken into account, an aspect that may …

We use longitudinal, disease-level data to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical … expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … estimated to have increased mean age at death by 0.60 years during the period. The estimates indicate that longevity depends on …

instead that a company may use its international value chain (customers, suppliers and competitors) to utilize foreign sources … for innovation at home. We suggest a combination of three factors to identify and explain such innovation strategies … customers as a source for innovation that is more beneficial to standardized products and becomes more feasible if the lead …