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Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The fivefold increase in opioid deaths between 2000 and 2017 rivals even the COVID-19 pandemic as a health crisis for America. Why did it happen? Measures of demand for pain relief - physical pain and despair - are high but largely unchanging. The primary shift is in supply, primarily of new...

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Drivers of Covid-19 vaccinations : vaccine administration and delivery efficiency in the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021

This paper adds some formal research to the success of ongoing efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US states and place the formal analysis in the context...

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Does mass deworming affect child nutrition? : meta-analysis, cost-effectiveness, and statistical power

Croke, Kevin; Hicks, Joan Hamory; Hsu, Eric; Kremer, Michael - 2016

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Does mass deworming affect child nutrition? : meta-analysis, cost-effectiveness, and statistical power

Croke, Kevin; Hicks, Joan Hamory; Hsu, Eric; Kremer, Michael - 2016

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Does mass deworming affect child nutrition? : meta-analysis, cost-effectiveness, and statistical power

Croke, Kevin; Hicks, Joan Hamory; Hsu, Eric; Kremer, Michael - 2016

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Toxified to the Bone : Early-Life and Childhood Exposure to Lead and Men's Old-Age Mortality

Fletcher, Jason; Noghanibehambari, Hamid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Several strands of research document the life-cycle impacts of lead exposure during the critical period of children …'s development. Yet little is known about long-run effects of lead exposure during early-life on old-age mortality outcomes. This … event-study analysis suggests that the impacts are more concentrated on children exposed during in-utero up to age 10. The …

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Accelerating vaccine innovation for emerging infectious diseases via parallel discovery

Barberio, Joseph; Becraft, Jacob; Ben Chaouch, Zied; … - In: Entrepreneurship and innovation policy and the economy … 2 (2023), pp. 9-39

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COVID-19 vaccines as global public goods : between life and profit

King, Katiuska; Carranza Barona, César - 2022

In the context of a health emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic, the global availability of and access to vaccines are imperative. This research paper provides an analysis from the perspective of international political economy, of the financing of COVID-19 vaccines and of the market strategies...

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Great expectations : social distancing in anticipation of pharmaceutical innovations

Makrēs, Miltiadēs; Toxvaerd, Flavio - 2020

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