driving the costs of pharmaceuticals, and develop a structured vector autoregressive (SVAR) model to measure the social rate …This study examines the relationship between pharmaceutical R&D and health care expenditures, distinguishing between … patents are not correlated with higher short-run prices in any measure of medical costs. They are associated with higher long …

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …

self-reported average out-of-pocket costs for all drugs consumed. That is, user fees reduce the use of potentially …

We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release … of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) - the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health … estimate the spillover effects of the WHIS findings on health behavior by means of a difference-in-differences methodology …

states with more nursing homes per capita, in states with more COVID-19 deaths, and with more health workers. The subset of … health workers, including physicians and nurses, did not significantly impact administration or efficiency. On the other hand …, vaccination efficiency was lower in states with a centralized public health agency. States with a larger share of the elderly …

states with more nursing homes per capita, in states with more COVID-19 deaths, and with more health workers. The subset of … health workers, including physicians and nurses, did not significantly impact administration or efficiency. On the other hand …, vaccination efficiency was lower in states with a centralized public health agency. States with a larger share of the elderly …

treatment costs were calculated for patients covered under Medicare Part B and D. The association between log-prices and …

suggest a pass-through of lower production costs to retail prices, boosting patients' demand for opioids, we fail to detect …