Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021
likely to die by the end of 2002, conditional on the covariates. The estimated mortality rates are strictly declining with … respect to drug vintage. For pre-1970 drugs, the estimated mortality rate is 4.4%. The mortality rates for 1970s, 1980s, and … 1990s drugs are 3.6%, 3.0%, and 2.5%, respectively. The actual mortality rate is about 16% (3.7% vs. 4.4%) lower than it …