Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 3, pp. 2505-2514
contribution by Lichtenberg (2004), which relates longevity in the United States to pharmaceutical innovation and public health …In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious … correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first …