Jayachandran, Seema; Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Smith, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper studies the contribution of sulfa drugs, a groundbreaking medical innovation in the 1930s, to declines in U.S. mortality. For several often-fatal infectious diseases, sulfa drugs represented the first effective treatment. Using time-series and difference-in-differences methods (with...