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Pharmaceuticai Innovation, Longevity, and Medical Expenditure in Greece, 1995-2010
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021
Longitudinal, disease-level data are used to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity (mean age at death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995-2010. The estimates indicate that pharmaceutical innovation increased mean age at death by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315556
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The Impact of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Longevity and Medical Expenditure in Sweden, 1997-2010 : Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data
Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Pettersson, Billie - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315886
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Disease and fertility : evidence from the 1918 influenza pandemic in Sweden
Boberg-Fazlić, Nina; Ivets, Maryna; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2017
mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility … increase in births to married women and better-off city dwellers. Our findings help understand the link between mortality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671006
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Health insurance, endogenous medical progress, and health expenditure growth
Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael - 2018
overlapping generations economy in which individuals purchase health care to lower mortality. We consider three sectors: final …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813315
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Disease and fertility : evidence from the 1918 influenza pandemic in Sweden
Boberg-Fazlić, Nina; Ivets, Maryna; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2017
mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility … increase in births to married women and better-off city dwellers. Our findings help understand the link between mortality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729470
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Medical progress, demand for health care, and economic performance
Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael; Wrzaczek, Stefan - 2017
We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals … demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781886
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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
Bhattacharya, Jay; Gathmann, Christina; Miller, Grant - 2011
% and 49% of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia’s transition to capitalism and democracy was not as lethal as …Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia’s 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the “Russian … Mortality Crisis”). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183713
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Medics, Monarchs and Mortality, 1600-1800 : Origins of the Knowledge-Driven Health Transition in Europe
Johansson, S. Ryan - 2010
Medical knowledge – defined broadly to include both its private and public forms – has been the driving force behind the historical transitions that have raised life expectancy in modern Europe. Advances in knowledge, rather than better nutrition (particularly the escape from caloric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192248
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Health Expenditures, Longevity and Growth
Dormont, Brigitte; Oliveira Martins, Joaquim; Pelgrin, … - 2015
This paper offers an integrated view of the relationships between health spending, medical innovation, health status, growth and welfare. Health spending triggers technological progress, which is a potential source of better outcomes in terms of longevity and quality of life, a direct source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047534