Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these … gains are unclear. New substitutes for older, more expensive health technologies can produce convergence in population … health outcomes, but may also be prone to "elite capture" leading to divergence. This paper studies the case of penicillin …

Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these … gains are unclear. New substitutes for older, more expensive health technologies can produce convergence in population … health outcomes, but may also be prone to "elite capture" leading to divergence. This paper studies the case of penicillin …

and 2004. Using data from the German Federation of Public Pension Providers, the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the … the observation period. Controlling for individual determinants of health-related retirement, such as worker's age, sex …

this paper we investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the annual time …-series behavior of U.S. longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and output … annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, …