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This study examines the effect of changes in the vintage distribution of cardiovascular system drugs on hospitalization and mortality due to cardiovascular disease using longitudinal country-level data. The vintage of a drug is the first year in which it was marketed anywhere in the world. We...
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We use data from PubMed and other sources to examine the impact of public and private research support on premature (before ages 75, 65, and 55) cancer mortality and hospitalization, by estimating difference-in-differences models based on longitudinal, cancer-site-level data on about 30 cancer...
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Coe and Helpman(1995) have measured the extent to which technology spills over between industrialized countries through the particular channel of trade flows. This paper re-examines two particular features of their study. First, we suggest that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects...
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I examine the impact of pharmaceutical innovation, as measured by the vintage (world launch year) of prescription drugs …
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I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on U.S. cancer mortality rates during … that there were no pre‐dated factors that drove both innovation and mortality and that there would have been parallel … trends in mortality in the absence of innovation, the estimates indicate that there were three major sources of the 13 …
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the elasticity of innovation with respect to the expected price of drugs should be at least as great as the elasticity of … innovation with respect to expected market size (disease incidence). I examine the cross-sectional relationship between … pharmaceutical innovation and market size among a set of diseases (different types of cancer) exhibiting substantial exogenous …
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We examine the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on the longevity of Australians during the period 1995-2003. Due to …
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of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in … Canada during the period 2000-2011, by investigating whether the cancer sites that experienced more pharmaceutical innovation … that pharmaceutical innovation during the period 1985-1996 reduced the number of years of potential life lost to cancer …
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This paper presents an econometric analysis of the effect of changes in the quantity and type of pharmaceuticals prescribed by physicians in outpatient visits on rates of hospitalization, surgical procedure, mortality, and related variables. It examines the statistical relationship across...
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the health of Americans during the period 1990-2003. We hypothesize that, the more medical innovation there is related to … hypothesis, we estimate models of health outcomes using longitudinal disease-level data. We measure innovation in five types of … outpatient drug innovation had larger increases in mean age at death, controlling for other medical innovation rates and initial …
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